1812

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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.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Topic

Predicting the future Determinism

Author

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Source

A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities

Language

French

Time

1812 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.

He who knows most, knows best how little he knows.

Thomas Jefferson

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Topic

Intellectual humility

Author

Thomas Jefferson

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1812 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Thomas Jefferson’s Batture Pamphlet. 25 Feb. 1812.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know
where one is going.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Topic

Exploration Adventure

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1812 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter. 3 Nov. 1812.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Topic

The sublime

Author

Napoleon Bonaparte

Genre

Historical literature

Language

French

Time

1812 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Bonaparte, Napoleon. Quoted in Histoire de I'Ambassade dans le grand-duche de Varsovie en 1812 [History of the Embassy in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw in 1812], written by M. de Pradt. Paris: Pilet, 1815.