Pierre-Simon Laplace Quote

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.


A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1902)


The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation...

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation...

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation...

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation...