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What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.


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

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Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

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To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.



Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.



What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.



His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.

His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.



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

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



Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.



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

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The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.





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