[Sire,] je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse."
En répondant Napoléon qui lui demanda pourquoi sa théorie de l'univers ne indique pas Dieux.
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Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceTags: humor science god atheist astronomy mathematics napoleon
We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceTags: science intelligence certainty past present determinism free-will nature time mind universe naturalism space physics comprehension eyes perfection astronomy omniscience data human-mind motion analysis formula lack-of-free-will
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.)
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What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceGive me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future.
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What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.
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The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.
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Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all.
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