Astronomy Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

“The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“When you write a book, you have total control of the universe and everyone in it.”

— Greg Iles

“Everything in the universe conforms to certain simple scientific rules that have been repeated over billions of years. While this can be awe-inspiring, it…

— Atheist Republic

“By writing books, a man turns into a universe.”

— Milan Kundera

“In the pages of a book, you can find the universe within a single heartbeat.”

— Umesha Chathurangi Handapangoda

“Andromeda was discovered to be another island universe, another spiral galaxy almost identical to our own, and one of the more than 100 billion…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“we are responsible for the Universe, because we are the Universe' (Brida)”

— Paulo Coelho

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

“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in…

— Betty Smith

“I figure the universe is basically like a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or…

— Rick Riordan