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“The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.” quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace — Download Open image

“The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.”

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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“L'homme ne poursuit que des chimères. ( Man follows only phantoms .) { His true last words, according to Augustus De Morgan .}”

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Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

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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…

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The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

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“...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer. { On the benefit of John Napier 's logarithms .}”

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To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

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We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the…

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If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event (prises de l'événement), are to each other as the probabilities of the event, given the causes: and the probability of each cause is equal to the probability of the event, given that cause, divided by the…

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The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another…

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The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their motions up to a certain point; and in order to determine the state of the system of these great bodies in past or future centuries, it suffices for the mathematician that their position and their velocity…

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His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.

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