The Past Is Pregnant With The Present.

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

The Monad, Of Which We Shall Speak Here, Is Nothing But A Simple Substance Which Enters Into Compounds; Simple, That Is To Say, Without Parts.

There Never Is Absolute Birth Nor Complete Death, In The Strict Sense, Consisting In The Separation Of The Soul From The Body. What We Call Births Are Developments And Growths, While What We Call Deaths Are Envelopments And Diminutions.

The Dot Was Introduced As A Symbol For Multiplication By Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, He Wrote In A Letter To Johann Bernoulli: "i Do Not Like X As A Symbol For Multiplication, As It Is Easily Confounded With X.

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.