"The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a sort of instinct, often without being able to give a reason for it."
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Pierre-Simon Laplace in Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Springer Science & Business Media, 1995, p. 124
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