One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNothing 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 nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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