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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIn 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 the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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 world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Nothing 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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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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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 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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