"The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability."

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

#Risk Quotes #Important Quotes #Problem Quotes

“I wrote my will across the sky, in stars”
“The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
“The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.”

Source : Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.1564, Library of Alexandria
“Obedience out of love is joy.”
“The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.”
“Too much thinking, not enough feeling.”
“That's what I stand for, telling people you can be just who you are. It's actually more beautiful.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.”

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