The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Early Modern

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From 'New Essays on Human Understanding'.

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1704

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