The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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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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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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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 waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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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 world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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