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Pierre-Simon Laplace

Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.'

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

Man follows only phantoms.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

genius pierre-simon laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

genius pierre-simon laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

genius pierre-simon laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

genius pierre-simon laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

genius pierre-simon laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.

Pierre-Simon Laplace