Laplace Quotes

12 quotes by 12 authors

• There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,… — Victor Hugo
• No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 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
• The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels… — Arthur Compton
• How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
• Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a… — Robert Andrews Millikan
• Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
• Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their… — Claude Bernard
• The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have… — Charles Babbage
• Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in… — W. W. Rouse Ball
• A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been… — Napoleon Bonaparte
• I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with… — Neil Armstrong

Who Wrote These Laplace Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 12 Laplace Quotes as follows:

• 1 Laplace Quote by Victor Hugo
• 1 Laplace Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Laplace Quote by Henry Adams
• 1 Laplace Quote by Arthur Compton
• 1 Laplace Quote by Clifford Truesdell
• 1 Laplace Quote by Robert Andrews Millikan
• 1 Laplace Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace
• 1 Laplace Quote by Claude Bernard
• 1 Laplace Quote by Charles Babbage
• 1 Laplace Quote by W. W. Rouse Ball
• 1 Laplace Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1 Laplace Quote by Neil Armstrong