Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote

Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we are able to know with certainty, even in the mathematical sciences themselves, the principal means for ascertaining truth - induction and analogy - are based on probabilities.


A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Chapter I (p. 1)


Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we are able to know...

Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we are able to know...

Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we are able to know...

Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we are able to know...