"Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though."

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

#Believe Quotes #Needs Quotes #May Quotes

“I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.”
“I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.”
“If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.”
“I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.”
“The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation.”

Source : "A Generation in Search of a Future". George Wald's speech at an anti-war teach-in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 4, 1969); published in Chicago Journalism Review by Ron Dorfman, May 1969.
“It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.”

Source : Niels Henrik Abel, Philip Horowitz (2007). “Abel on analysis: papers of N.H. Abel on Abelian and elliptic functions and the theory of series”
“That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.”
“I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone.”

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