Mathematics Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz

9 Mathematics quotes by Gottfried Leibniz

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Gottfried Leibniz’s nine short reflections on Mathematics reveal his view of numbers as the language of the universe, ripe with meaning.

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

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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,…

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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and,…

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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 art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture…

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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…

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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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When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas…

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There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above…

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Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or…

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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

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All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential…

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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or…

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The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without…

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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of…

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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it…

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There is nothing without reason.

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God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to…

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It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God,…

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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

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If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers…

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