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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
Age: 70 †
Born: 1646
Born: July 1
Died: 1716
Died: November 14
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Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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