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Pierre-Simon Laplace Quotes about Science

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

"Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan, 1866.

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 (2012). “Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator”, p.124, Springer Science & Business Media

Man follows only phantoms.

"Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan, 1866.