In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTake what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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 past is pregnant with the present.
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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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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.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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