""Read Euler: he is our master in everything."" — Pierre-Simon Laplace

""Read Euler: he is our master in everything.""

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

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32 Quotes by Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective…
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…
[It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations…
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena.…
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social…
The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded…
The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling…
The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature…
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…
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would…

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Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation… — James Clerk Maxwell
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all… — Thomas Reid
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention. — Richard Courant
There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a… — Edward Kasner
In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces,… — George Polya

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