A Budget of Paradoxes, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Budget of Paradoxes, Vol. 2 Napoleon, greatly amused, told this reply to Lagrange, who exclaimed, "Ah! c´est une belle hypothese; ça explique beaucoup de choses." It is commonly said that the last words of Laplace were, "Ce que nous connaissons est peu de chose; ce que nous ignorons est immense." This looks like a parody on Newton´s pebbles: the following is the true account; it comes to me through one remove from Poisson. After the publication (in 1825) of the fifth volume of the Mecanique Céleste, Laplace became gradually weaker, and with it musing and abstracted. He thought much on the great problems of existence, and often muttered to himself, Qu´est ce que c´est que tout cela! After many alternations, he appeared at last so permanently prostrated that his family applied to his favorite pupil, M. Poisson, to try to get a word from him. Poisson paid a visit, and after a few words of salutation, said, "J´ai une bonne nouvelle à vous annoncer: on a reçu au Bureau des Longitudes une lettre d´Allemagne annonçant que M. Bessel a verifie par l´observation vos decouvertes theoriques sur les satellites de Jupiter." Laplace opened his eyes and answered with deep "I have no need for this hypothesis." "Ah, it is a beautiful hypothesis; it explains many things." "What we know is very slight; what we don´t know is immense." Brewster relates (Life of Sir Isaac Newton, Vol. II, p. 407) that, a short time before his death. Newton remarked: "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." See Vol. I, p. 292, note 1. "What is all that!" "I have some good news to tell you: at the Bureau of Longitudes they have just received a letter from Germany announcing that M. Bessel has verified by observation your theoretical discoveries on the satellites of Jupiter." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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