Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.'

Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis.)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Stichwörter: humor science atheism universe naturalism astronomy napoleon napoleon-bonaparte napoleon-the-great

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This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.

{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 4, 1816. Adams wrote an anonymous 4 volume work on the destructive history of the Jesuits}

John Adams

Stichwörter: history jefferson thomas-jefferson despotism calamity french-revolution napoleon napoleon-bonaparte jesuits

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