The cosmos does not require God, Laplace said to himself. But Emperors require Him. All those who seek to subjugate human beings in one form or another require Him. Science does not need God.

Tomichan Matheikal
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Laplace was famously known for his statement, "I do not know whether the motion of the heavenly bodies has been determined by God; but I know that if one occupies himself with this question he will not be much occupied with other questions." (Augustin Louis de Laplace, 1749-1827). Laplace is considered the founder of mathematical physics. He worked to unify Newton's three laws of motion with Coulomb's law of electrostatics, and thus to provide a single mathematical description of the physical universe. He was an atheist. The quote above is credited to him.

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