Laplace Quotes

“I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

— Henry Adams

Sin 2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin 2 φ…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables,…

— Neil Armstrong

Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

“ Napoleon , when hearing about Laplace 's latest book, said, ' M. Laplace , they tell me you have written this…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“Whenever I meet in Laplace with the words 'Thus it plainly appears', I am sure that hours and perhaps days, of hard…

— Nathaniel Bowditch

Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to…

— Kathryn Schulz

A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Biot , who assisted Laplace in revising it [ The Mécanique Céleste ] for the press, says that Laplace himself was…

— Anonymous

“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither…

— Augustus De Morgan

“The great masters of modern analysis are Lagrange , Laplace , and Gauss , who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note…

— W.W. Rouse Ball

“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they…

— Robert G. Ingersoll