Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote

There is no question here of vague causes, which cannot be submitted to analysis, and which the imagination modifies at pleasure to accommodate them to the phenomena.


Translated by J. Pond, The System of the World (Volume 2)


There is no question here of vague causes, which cannot be submitted to analysis, and which the imagination modifies at pleasure to accommodate them...

There is no question here of vague causes, which cannot be submitted to analysis, and which the imagination modifies at pleasure to accommodate them...

There is no question here of vague causes, which cannot be submitted to analysis, and which the imagination modifies at pleasure to accommodate them...

There is no question here of vague causes, which cannot be submitted to analysis, and which the imagination modifies at pleasure to accommodate them...