It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

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

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?