Pierre-Simon Laplace

1749–1827 · French mathematician and astronomer

Topics: learning, mathematics

• Imaginary causes have gradually receded with the widening bounds of knowledge and disappear entirely before sound philosophy, which sees in them only the expression of our ignorance of the true causes.

  — Pierre-Simon Laplace

• The theory of chance consists in reducing all the events of the same kind to a certain number of cases equally possible

  — Pierre-Simon Laplace