Leibniz said, Music is the mind counting without being…

I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle. That series,…

— Neal Stephenson

“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori, Leibniz ended…

— Lee Braver

Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals and politics…

— Catherine Wilson

“Leibniz's development of the symbols and theory behind calculus, which allows for the precise study and modeling of change, gave mathematicians a weapon with…

— Christopher Steiner

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do…

— G.K. Chesterton

Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that "It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what…

— Matthew Tindal

Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it…

— Neal Stephenson

“Leibniz's machine was designed to automate the dreary task of solving moral problems”

— Martin Cohen

“Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment its amplitude,…

— Gilles Deleuze

“In 1714, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that matter alone could never produce a mind. Leibniz was a German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who is…

— David Eagleman

“Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that…

— Gottfried Leibniz

The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann Bernoulli: "I…

— Gottfried Leibniz

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history…

— Robert Trout

“If there is one thing common to the great modern speculative philosophers, Leibniz, Hegel and Deleuze, it is the risk that re-animating the universe…

— Christian Kerslake

“The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in the 'Protogaea'…

— Thomas Henry Huxley