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• Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of…
• Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
• The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed…
• [It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a…
• Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory…
• [Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should…
• The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel…
• The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the…
• The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple…
• All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.
• It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system…
• We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy…

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