The Baker family

Michael Hennessey writes about some Quaker scientists

Kathleen Drew Baker. | Photo: Smithsonian Institute @ Flickr Commons

Pierre-Simon Laplace, an influential French mathematician, physicist and astronomer, when asked by Napoleon why he had not mentioned the author of the universe in his book about the system of the world, replied: ‘I had no need of that hypothesis.’

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