Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716)

German philosopher and mathematician

• "Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which doesn't know that it is counting."
  • Original Latin: "Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi."

• "Nature does nothing in leaps"
  • Original French: "La nature ne fait jamais des sauts." From the foreword of Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain. The more famous Latin version - "Natura non facit saltus" - is from the Philosophia Botanica by Linnaeus .