Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace
"Present events are connected with preceding events by a tie based upon the evident principle that a thing cannot occur without a cause which produces it."
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."