Leibniz Quotes

16 quotes by 13 authors

It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur… — Noel-Antoine Pluche
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything… — David Berlinski
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product… — Richard Courant
Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum was given by… — Leonhard Euler
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who,… — Hans Reichenbach
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their… — Robert Trout
Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists that result are… — David Berlinski
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler
The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz. — Andre Maurois
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history… — Nicholas Murray Butler
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder… — Morris Kline
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant
Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is… — Neal Stephenson
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand… — John Searle

Who Wrote These Leibniz Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 16 Leibniz Quotes as follows: