Quotes from Pierre Simon de Laplace

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.

Sire, I have no need of that hypothesis.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.