I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
Gottfried LeibnizThus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
Gottfried LeibnizIt is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
Gottfried Leibniz