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| 3789 | The more reasons that compel me, the freer I am [Descartes] |
| Full Idea: I move the more freely towards an object in proportion to the number of reasons which compel me. | |
| From: René Descartes (Letter to Mersenne [1642]) |
| 3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
| Full Idea: An intelligence knowing at an instant the whole universe could know the movement of the largest bodies and atoms in one formula, provided his intellect were powerful enough to subject all data to analysis. Past and future would be present to his eyes. | |
| From: Pierre Simon de Laplace (Philosophical Essay on Probability [1820]), quoted by Mark Thornton - Do we have free will? p.70 |