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:
“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.)
“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)
“There is a moment when god honors falsehood.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)