Honors
- The asteroid 4628 Laplace is named for Laplace.
- Laplace is one of only seventy-two persons to have his name engraved on the Eiffel Tower.
- The tentative working name of the European Space Agency Europa Jupiter System Mission is the "Laplace" space probe.
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Famous quotes containing the word honors:
“My heart’s subdued
Even to the very quality of my lord.
I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,
And to his honors and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)