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.


Théorie Analytique des Probabilités (1812). Quoted in A. S. Eddington, New Pathways in Science (1935)

Pierre-Simon Laplace Quotes

It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance, should have become the most important object of human...

It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance, should have become the most important object of human...

It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance, should have become the most important object of human...

It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance, should have become the most important object of human...