Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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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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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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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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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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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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What is is what must be.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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