Gottfried wilhelm von leibniz quotes

[about him:]
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously.

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

Gottfried wilhelm von leibniz quotes

Gottfried wilhelm von leibniz quotes

Gottfried wilhelm von leibniz quotes on education

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Christian huygens

Gottfried wilhelm von leibniz quotes on government

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.

The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture greatly shortens the road.

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