 Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis it would embrace in the...  A Short History of Science - Page 331by William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - 1902 - 238 pages
...of the universe as the effect of its anterior state and as the cause of the one which is to follow. Given for one instant an intelligence which could...forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it — an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - 1914 - 436 pages
...which it will. DE MORGAN, A. Transactions Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 8 (1844), P- 188. 1920. Given for one instant an intelligence which could...to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace hi the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest... | |
 | Edgar Pierce - 1924 - 460 pages
...alone in this view. Thus Laplace holds that "an intelligence which, for a given instant, should know all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings composing it, if further it was sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis, would include in... | |
 | J.L. Lopes, M. Paty - 1977 - 334 pages
...central position in the age of reason as evidenced not least in the famous statement of Laplace (1814): "Given for one instant an intelligence which could...forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it -an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis... | |
 | F. Kraupl Taylor - 1979 - 152 pages
...predestined, by mechanistic laws. Laplace (1814) gave expression to this conviction, when he said: 'Given for one instant an intelligence which could...forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it - an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to... | |
 | Thomas Steven Molnar - 1980 - 244 pages
...achieve the breakthrough to a universal science predicated on the total knowledge at any one time of 'all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the entities which compose it'. Implicit in the formula is the assumption that all entities are material... | |
 | Daniel Clement Dennett - 1984 - 230 pages
...animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it — an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis — it would embrace in the same formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atom; for it, nothing... | |
 | Yvonna S. Lincoln, Egon G. Guba - 1985 - 422 pages
...of its previous state and as the cause of the one which is to follow. Given for one instant a mind which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it— a mind sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis... | |
 | Lesslie Newbigin - 1986 - 164 pages
...mathematical terms. Consequently, to quote Laplace, "An intelligence which knew at one moment of time all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the entities which compose it ... would embrace in the same formula the movements of the largest bodies... | |
 | H. Triebel - 1987 - 494 pages
...closely the model thinking described above. To illustrate this, let us consider here a simple example. ') "Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces of nature and the respective situation of the things that compose it ... for it nothing would be uncertain... | |
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