Quotations by Laplace Quotations by Pierre-Simon Laplace What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense. Quoted in A De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes . Quoted in A De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes .
Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories. You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. It explains so many things. Quoted in A De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes .