-Pierre Simon de Laplace phrased this vision in terms of a controlling, omniscient instance - the {\em Laplace demon} - which would be able to look into the future as well as into the past due to the deterministic nature of processes, governed by the solution of differential equations.
-Although Laplace's vision is nowadays corrected by chaos theory and quantum mechanics, it expresses two main features of classical mechanics, the determinism of processes and time reversibility of the fundamental equations.
-This understanding was one of the first ideas for doing molecular dynamics simulations, considering an isolated system of particles, the behaviour of which is fully determined by the solution of the classical equations of motion.
+Pierre Simon de Laplace phrased this vision in terms of a controlling, omniscient instance --- the {\em Laplace demon} --- which would be able to look into the future as well as into the past due to the deterministic nature of processes, which is governed by the solution of differential equations.
+Although Laplace's vision is nowadays corrected by chaos theory and quantum mechanics, it expresses two main features of classical mechanics, i.e.\ the determinism of processes and time reversibility of the fundamental equations.
+This understanding may be regarded as the basic principle of molecular dynamics, considering an isolated system of particles, the behavior of which is fully determined by the solution of the classical equations of motion.