The actual world is the most beautiful, because it contains the greatest variety with the greatest order.
Calculus, optimism
Essais de Théodicée, Part 1, Section 8
1710
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"The monads can only be changed by God."
Strange & Unusual"I do not like X as a symbol for multiplication, as it is easily confounded with x."
Humorous"The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road."
Strange & Unusual"Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity."
Philosophical"The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the detail of changes exists only eminently, as in its source; and this is what we call God."
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