Progress depends on our sagacity in finding intermediate ideas. Those who are ignorant of algebra cannot imagine the wonderful things that may be done in this field by means of this science. And I do not see that it is easy to determine what new means of perfecting other parts of our knowledge may yet be found out by a penetrating mind.


New Essays Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV, Chapter III (p. 432), The Open Court Publishing Co. 1916

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes

Progress depends on our sagacity in finding intermediate ideas. Those who are ignorant of algebra cannot imagine the wonderful things that may be...

Progress depends on our sagacity in finding intermediate ideas. Those who are ignorant of algebra cannot imagine the wonderful things that may be...

Progress depends on our sagacity in finding intermediate ideas. Those who are ignorant of algebra cannot imagine the wonderful things that may be...

Progress depends on our sagacity in finding intermediate ideas. Those who are ignorant of algebra cannot imagine the wonderful things that may be...