Pierre-Simon Laplace Quotes

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol hav...

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more ...