“It is evident that everything is in a continual flux, and it is as impossible to find any certain individual in the world as it is to take up any definite quantity of water in the ocean.”
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Simplified Meaning:
Everything is always changing, and it is just as hard to find one specific thing in the world as it is to grab a fixed amount of water from the sea.
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