Calculations Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace Download Open image “Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.” — Pierre-Simon Laplace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calculations Common Common sense Probability Probability theory Theory
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The true logic of this world is the calculus of probabilities. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not… — George Boole Copy Share Image
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“L'homme ne poursuit que des chimères. ( Man follows only phantoms .) { His true last words, according to Augustus De Morgan .}” — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer. { On the benefit of John Napier 's logarithms .}” — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . .… — Giacomo Puccini Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination of those… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
