皮埃爾-西蒙·拉普拉斯
被譽(yù)為“法國(guó)的牛頓”
The theory of probabilities is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable.
概率論是唯一可用的數(shù)學(xué)工具，用于幫助映射未知和不可控的事物。
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value.
What we know is little, and what we are ignorant of is immense.
我們所知道的很少，而我們不知道的卻是無(wú)限的。
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.
It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge.
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.
The universe is a machine for the production of gods.
宇宙是生產(chǎn)神的機(jī)器。
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value.
是印度給了我們表達(dá)所有數(shù)字的巧妙方法，每個(gè)符號(hào)都有一個(gè)位置值和一個(gè)絕對(duì)值。
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.
The most important questions of life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability.
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.
概率論不過(guò)是常識(shí)的量化。
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.
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