Author: Pierre-Simon de Laplace

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  • IN: Orion in the Dying Time (1990) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: An intelligence knowing, at a given instance of time, all forces acting in nature, as well as the momentary position of all things of which the universe consists, would be able to comprehend the motions of the largest bodies of the world and those of the lightest atoms in one single formula, provided his intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to him nothing would be uncertain, both past and future would be present in his eyes.
    FROM: A philosophical essay on probabilities, (1814), Essay, France