Newton of France - Laplace

Engineers, mathematicians, physicists could not live in comfort without his method to analyze linear differential equations. Once people understand differential equations, the feeling of predicting events becomes an addictive pleasure—essentially, glimpsing the future. This great mind came to our planet as a guest in the 18th century and left in the 19th century. But his discoveries will endure as long as humanity or the universe exists.

Let's start with what this legend said once, then I'd like to put my thoughts/analysis on it.

"We can see the current state of universe as result of the past and the cause of the future. Imagine an intelligence that, at any moment, knows all forces and positions of all entities, and if it could process this information, it could fit everything—from the motion of massive planets to the lightest atom—into one beautiful equation. For such an intelligent nothing would be uncertain and as past, the future would be laid down in front the eyes."

I find two key highlights in this quote.

1. The idea of, one beautiful equation to explain everything, from movement of a planet to movement of an atom. So far, We have lost many brilliant minds in the quest to unify relativity and quantum theories (We are fortunate to have lived in the same era as one of the greatest minds we lost this century).
2. The idea of precise predictions, or knowing the future, is captivating.

I'm going to focus on the 2nd item. Knowing everything that will happen, or at least all possible outcomes, seems appealing, but considering the cost of such knowledge, the picture becomes quite depressing....
Knowing the future in all sense and seeing it, wouldn't it be losing the meaning of the moment and the future, and after some point losing meaning of the past? Doesn’t a past that’s lost its meaning feel like an axe chopping at our memory? If we don’t talk about the past, aren’t we kind of ignoring who we are?
One of the thing that makes our lives more beautiful or to add excitement to it, is named curiosity, easy to pronounce however the depth of it changes per person and per situation, from this perspective, isn't it, curiosity is making a blurry association with Anaximander's "Aperion" in your mind? Feels like the core of everything is curiosity in that sense, without it, we could not be where we are, what we are...

Well, isn’t it kind of creepy to think we know it all when what we know might not even be close to the real deal? No matter how much we figure out, shouldn’t we always admit there’s stuff we don’t know? Even if we’re super sure about everything, believing there’s still something out there to learn keeps us human, right?

The beauty lies in realizing you’re walking the path and savoring it, in picturing the end of the road in your mind after every step, and enjoying how that picture shifts over time. It’s not about suddenly seeing or knowing it all without going through the journey.