Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain. And the future as the past would be present to its eyes.
Un intelligence qui, pour un instant donne, connaitrait toutes les forces don’t la nature est animee, et la situation respective des etres qui la composent, si d'ailleurs elle etait assiz vaste pour soummettre ces donnees a l'analyse, embrasserait dane la mem formule les mouvements des plus grands corps de l'univers et ceux du plos leger atome: rien ne serait incertain pour elle, et l'avenir comme le passe serait present a ses yeux.
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Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.
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