Laplace Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him…
— Clifford Truesdell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: