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Quotes from A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities from a École Normale Lecture — Pierre-Simon Laplace

1749–1827 France

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The curve described by a single molecule of air or vapor is regulated in a manner just as certain as the planetary orbits; the only difference between them that which comes from our ignorance.

A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities from a École Normale Lecture (1795)

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