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Top 20 Pierre-Simon Laplace Quotes (2025 Update)

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.”

1. “Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.”

2. “Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “Read Euler, read Euler. He is the master of us all.”

3. “Read Euler, read Euler. He is the master of us all.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.”

4. “Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things.”

5. “Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.”

6. “What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.”

7. “The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.”

8. “The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.”

9. “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

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.”

10. “All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.”

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

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “The word ‘chance’ then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another in no apparent order. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.”

12. “The word ‘chance’ then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another in no apparent order. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “What we know is not much. What we don’t know is enormous.”

13. “What we know is not much. What we don’t know is enormous.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “Man follows only phantoms.”

14. “Man follows only phantoms.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.”

15. “Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.”

16. “Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple only in its causes, and its economy consists in producing a great number of phenomena, often very complicated, by means of a small number of general laws.”

17. “The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple only in its causes, and its economy consists in producing a great number of phenomena, often very complicated, by means of a small number of general laws.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe – that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.”

18. “I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe – that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “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 sort of instinct, often without being able to give a reason for it.”

19. “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 sort of instinct, often without being able to give a reason for it.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.”

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

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.”

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

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote: “It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world will offer us numerous examples, makes one of the greatest charms attached to mathematical speculations.”

23. “It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world will offer us numerous examples, makes one of the greatest charms attached to mathematical speculations.”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

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