All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.
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.
Man follows only phantoms.
Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.
The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.
The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions.
The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.
The theory of probabilities is basically just common sense reduced to calculus; it makes one appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct, often without being able to account for it.
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.
Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.
What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.
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