Amid the variable and unknown causes which we comprehend under the name of chance, and which render uncertain and irregular the march of events, we see appearing, in the measure that they multiply, a striking regularity which seems to hold to a design and which has been considered as a proof of Providence.


A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Chapter VIII (p. 60), John Wiley & Sons. 1902

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quotes

Amid the variable and unknown causes which we comprehend under the name of chance, and which render uncertain and irregular the march of events, we...

Amid the variable and unknown causes which we comprehend under the name of chance, and which render uncertain and irregular the march of events, we...

Amid the variable and unknown causes which we comprehend under the name of chance, and which render uncertain and irregular the march of events, we...

Amid the variable and unknown causes which we comprehend under the name of chance, and which render uncertain and irregular the march of events, we...