Source, in full
De Morgan, Augustus (January 1872). Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan ed. A Budget of Paradoxes, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. As found in www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk, accessed February 13, 2006.
Notes from Wikiquote
Translation: "[No, Sire,] I had no need of that hypothesis." | Reputed reply to Emperor Napoleon I, who had asked why he hadn't mentioned God in his discourse on secular variations of the orbits of Saturn and Jupiter ("Mais où est Dieu dans tout cela?"/'But where is God in all this?').