Gottfried Leibniz Quotes About Math
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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, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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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 often greatly shortens the road.
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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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