Pierre-Simon Laplace Quotes About Mathematics

Quotes about: Mathematics

• All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Beauty, Art, Nature

• Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Nature, Laughing, Mathematics

  "The Armchair Science Reader". Book by Isabel S. Gordon and Sophie Sorkin, 1959.

• It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Education, Appreciation, Mean

  "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

• Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Math, Profound, Language

• Man follows only phantoms.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Math, Science, Men

  "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan, 1866.

• It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world will offer us numerous examples, makes one of the greatest charms attached to mathematical speculations.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Law, Interesting

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