Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace
"We ought then to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its anterior state and as the cause of the state that is to follow."
More from Pierre-Simon Laplace
"I had no need of that hypothesis."
"The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness."
"What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense."
"If we ought to have a fear of anything, we ought to have a fear of want of knowledge rather than of scepticism."