Body Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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

— Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which…

— Gottfried Leibniz

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

— Gottfried Leibniz

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would…

— Gottfried Leibniz

“There is in God something analogous to “society”. He is not a single person, loving himself alone, not a self-contained monad or “The One”.…

— Kallistos Ware

Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer…

— Ambrose Bierce

“...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the same for…

— Ernst Cassirer

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

— John Green

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

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

— Werner Heisenberg