8 ideas
20660 | At one level maths and nature are very similar, suggesting some deeper origin [Wolfram] |
13195 | To explain a house we must describe its use, as well as its parts [Leibniz] |
13193 | Active force is not just potential for action, since it involves a real effort or striving [Leibniz] |
8120 | Objects can be beautiful which express nothing at all, such as the rainbow [Herbart, by Tolstoy] |
13194 | God's laws would be meaningless without internal powers for following them [Leibniz] |
13196 | All qualities of bodies reduce to forces [Leibniz] |
13192 | Power is passive force, which is mass, and active force, which is entelechy or form [Leibniz] |
20659 | Space and its contents seem to be one stuff - so space is the only existing thing [Wolfram] |