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“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor…

— Augustus De Morgan

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

How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left…

— Anonymous

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

— W.W. Rouse Ball

Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any…

— John Desmond Bernal

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the…

— Nassau William Senior

“And Colin thought: Because like say I tell someone about my feral hog hunt. Even if it's a dumb story, telling it changes other…

— John Green

No scientist thinks in formulae.

— Albert Einstein

Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter…

— Claude Bernard

Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.

— Robert McKee