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Pierre-Simon Laplace

"Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eye."

Source : Oeuvres vol. 7, introduction (1812 - 1820)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#Eye Quotes #Past Quotes #Data Quotes

“My grandmother influenced me so deeply.”
“Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.”

Source : B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.88, Lulu.com
“Making it [police movie] as realistic as possible. I'm honored to be here because it doesn't happen that often from what I hear. They keep people like me away. "Come down and say 'Hello' and get out!"”
“When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.”
“The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.”
“Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.”
“Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed, by which you can promote the glory of God, or good-will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 204), 1895.

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