"Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that no matter how many experiments you have done on corpses, yo…"

"If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness."

"The universe is an immense ocean of monads."

"The universe is a machine, but a divine machine."

"I do not like X as a symbol for multiplication, as it is easily confounded with x."