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Quotes from Philosophical Essay on Probabilities — Pierre-Simon Laplace

1749–1827 France

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The most important questions of life... are indeed for the most part only problems of probability.

Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1902)

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.

Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1902)

Let us recall that formerly, and at no remote epoch... all the unusual phenomena were regarded as so many signs of celestial wrath.

Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1902)

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