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Translation: "What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense." - Pierre-Simon Laplace
" "Translation: "What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense."
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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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Pierre Simon Laplace
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Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace
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Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace
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Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace
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Pierre-Simon de Laplace
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Laplace
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P.S. de Laplace
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The most important questions of life... are indeed for the most part only problems of probability. Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we are able to know with certainty, even in the mathematical sciences themselves, the principal means for ascertaining truth—induction and analogy—are based on probabilities.
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They asked Laplace who, in his opinion, was the greatest mathematician of Germany. "It's Pfaff," he answered. - "I thought," the questioner replied, "that Gauss was superior to him." - "But," exclaimed Laplace, "you're asking me who is the greatest mathematician of Germany, and Gauss is the greatest mathematician of Europe."
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