The Present Is Saturated With The Past

In My Judgment An Organic Machine New To Nature Never Arises, Since It Always Contains An Infinity Of Organs So That It Can Express, In Its Own Way, The Whole Universe; Indeed, It Always Contains All Past And Present Times.

I Am Convinced That The Unwritten Knowledge Scattered Among Men Of Different Callings Surpasses In Quantity And In Importance Anything We Find In Books, And That The Greater Part Of Our Wealth Has Yet To Be Recorded.

God Makes Nothing Without Order, And Everything That Forms Itself Develops Imperceptibly Out Of Small Parts.

The Dot Was Introduced As A Symbol For Multiplication By Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, He Wrote In A Letter To Johann Bernoulli: "i Do Not Like X As A Symbol For Multiplication, As It Is Easily Confounded With X.

The Larger The Mass Of Collected Things, The Less Will Be Their Usefulness. Therefore, One Should Not Only Strive To Assemble New Goods From Everywhere, But One Must Endeavor To Put In The Right Order Those That One Already Possesses.