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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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It 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.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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Greatness Invention Knowledge Possession Service
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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