“If we imagine an intellect which at any given moment knew all the forces that animate Nature and the mutual positions of the beings that comprise it — if this intellect were vast enough to submit its data to analysis — could condense into a single formula the movement of the greatest bodies of the univese ant that of the lightest atom. For such an intellect nothing could be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes”
— Pierre-Simon Laplace