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Laplace

noun
1.
French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827).  Synonyms: Marquis de Laplace, Pierre Simon de Laplace.





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"Laplace" Quotes from Famous Books



... our hope and our religion lies. Thrice blessed are we in the certainty that here our range is infinite. This infinite that makes our brains reel, that begets the feeling that makes us 'shrink,' is perhaps the most portentous argument in the logic of the sceptic. Since the days of Laplace, we have been haunted in some form or other with the ghost of the MECANIQUE CELESTE. Take one or two commonplaces from ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke


Words linked to "Laplace" :   Pierre Simon de Laplace, uranologist, stargazer, astronomer, Marquis de Laplace, mathematician


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