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The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

"Read Euler: he is our master in everything."

Man follows only phantoms.

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.

...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer.

{On the benefit of John Napier's logarithms.}

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all.