“This is the best of all possible worlds.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
“The present is big with the future.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
“Nihil est sine ratione"
("There is nothing without a reason")
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
“Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
“There is nothing in the understanding which has not come from the senses, except the understanding itself, or the one who understands.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used".
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
(Describing, in 1685, the value to astronomers of the hand-cranked calculating machine he had invented in 1673.)
“Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
"Omnibus ex nihilo ducendis sufficit unum"
(“To produce everything out of nothing, one is sufficient”)
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)