[Sire,] je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse. - Pierre-Simon Laplace

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[Sire,] je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse.

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

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About Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer, discoverer of the Laplace transform and Laplace's equation.

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Native Name: Pierre Simon Laplace

Alternative Names: Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace • Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace • Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace • Pierre-Simon de Laplace • Laplace • P.S. de Laplace • P.-S. de Laplace

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Ce que nous connaissons est peu de chose, ce que nous ignorons est immense.

The theory of chance consists in reducing all the events of the same kind to a certain number of cases equally possible, that is to say, to such as we may be equally undecided about in regard to their existence, and in determining the number of cases favorable to the event whose probability is sought.

L'homme ne poursuit que des chimères.