Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — "The universe is an immense ocean of monads."

"Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions are determined only by the principle of memory."

"A great doctor kills more people than a great general."

"The true method of discovery is to reduce everything to numbers."

"It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things."

"There are also two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; truths of fact are contingent and their opposite is possib…"