"given for one instant a mind which could comprehend all the forces by which nature ...

... is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it - a mind suffiently vast to submit these data to analysis - it would embrace in the same formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atom ; for it, nothing would be uncertain and the future, as past, would be present to its eyes." -LAPLACE . (photo taken 2 years ago at zurich hardbrücke)