The Past Is Pregnant With The Present.

In My Judgment An Organic Machine New To Nature Never Arises, Since It Always Contains An Infinity Of Organs So That It Can Express, In Its Own Way, The Whole Universe; Indeed, It Always Contains All Past And Present Times.

We Live In The Best Of All Possible Worlds

Therefore, I Have Attacted [the Problem Of The Catenary] Which I Had Hitherto Not Attempted, And With My Key [the Differential Calculus] Happily Opened Its Secret. Acta Eruditorum

I Agree With You That It Is Important To Examine Our Presuppositions, Throughly And Once For All, In Order To Establish Something Solid. For I Hold That It Is Only When We Can Prove All That We Bring Forward That We Perfectly Understand The Thing Under Consideration. I Know That The Common Herd Takes Little Pleasure In These Researches, But I Know Also That The Common Herd Take Little Pains Thoroughly To Understand Things.

According To Their [newton And His Followers] Doctrine, God Almighty Wants To Wind Up His Watch From Time To Time: Otherwise It Would Cease To Move. He Had Not, It Seems, Sufficient Foresight To Make It A Perpetual Motion. Nay, The Machine Of God's Making, So Imperfect, According To These Gentlemen; That He Is Obliged To Clean It Now And Then By An Extraordinary Concourse, And Even To Mend It, As Clockmaker Mends His Work.