The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceThe most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceI have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe--that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceWe are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher to deny phenomena simply because they are inexplicable at the present state of our knowledge. The more difficult it is to acknowledge their existence, the greater the care with which we must study these phenomena.
Pierre-Simon Laplace