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“ ”I don't really eliminate body, but reduce it to what it is. For I show that corporeal mass, which is thought to have something over and above simple substances, is not a substance, but a phenomenon resulting from simple substances, which alone have unity and absolute reality.
About Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1 July 1646 {21 June O.S.} – 14 November 1716) was a German philosopher and mathematician.
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Additional quotes by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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.)
The present is big with the future.
Fuit in Cartesio major librorum usus quam ipse videri volebat: hoc stylus et res ipsae
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