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Our Knowledge Quotes by Pierre-Simon Laplace
- The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another in…
- Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple…
- We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher…
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- To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many… — Ronald Reagan
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- With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we… — Edwin Powell Hubble