It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves i… - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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.)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1 July 1646 {21 June O.S.} – 14 November 1716) was a German philosopher and mathematician.

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In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.

Omne possibile exigit existere.

He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

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