Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — "I maintain that the universe is a kind of clock, wound up by God, and that it ru…"
I maintain that the universe is a kind of clock, wound up by God, and that it runs without His further interference.
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Paraphrase of his deistic view from correspondence, particularly with Samuel Clarke.
Date: 1715-1716
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