“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. (Describing, in 1685, the value to astronomers of the hand-cranked calculating machine… — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
“Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.” — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
“imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful resource of the divine intellect, almost an amphibian between being and non-being.” — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else… — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
“It is true that the more we see some connection in what happens to us, the more we are confirmed in the opinion we… — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
“... for although people can be made worse off by all other gifts, correct reasoning alone can only be for the good.” — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
“It is true that as the empty voids and the dismal wilderness belong to zero, so the spirit of God and His light belong… — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
