Mathematical Quote by Gottfried Leibniz Download Open image “Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.” — Gottfried Leibniz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mathematical Mathematical problems Music Music is Problem Secret Soul Spirituality Unconscious
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz)” — Ellen Klages Copy Share Image
Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image