Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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The present is great with the future.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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