Gottfried Leibniz Quotes About Mathematics

Quotes about: Mathematics

• Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Music, Math, Science

• Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Math, Interesting, Important

• He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Time, Math, Men

• Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Life, Dream, Real

  "The World of Mathematics". Book by James R. Newman, p. 1832, 1956.

• When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Ideas, Words Of Wisdom, Analysis

• The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Art, Math, Causes

  "New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing". Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German Writeen,

• In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Nature, Math, Science

• Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Time, Science, Done

• The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Music, Beauty, Art

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