Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace
"It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge."
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."