Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — "I am so much for peace that I would rather be silent than say something which mi…"

"I also take it for granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one."

"The monads have no parts."

"It is not absurd for discerning Europeans . . . to see something today which is not adequately known by the Chinese erudites, and to be able to interpret their ancient books better than the erudites t…"

"It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used."

"The present is big with the future."