"According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine,……" — Gottfried Leibniz
"According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work."
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Gottfried Leibniz
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72 Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz
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