"Lagrange, also present (or to whom Napoleon repeated Laplace's reply, in another version), then commented: "Ah ! C’est une belle hypothèse; ça explique beaucoup de choses.""

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Sometimes (as in Félix Blanchet's preface to his edition of the Œuvres complètes de Lucrèce. Paris: Garnier, 1861, p. xx) this comment is attributed to Laplace himself.