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Quotes by "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz"

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
Tags: philosophy, metaphysics, logic
When the origin of remote peoples goes beyond history, our languages show themselves their oldest monuments
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Tags: philosophy, language, history
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. (Describing, in 1685, the value to astronomers of the hand-cranked calculating machine he had invented in 1673.)
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Tags: time, slaves, science, machine, labour, calculator, astronomy
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