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As there are an infinity of possible worlds, there are also an…

Quote byGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1646–1716

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: (May, 1686) as quoted in George R. Montgomery, Tr., "Correspondence between Leibniz and Arnauld," Leibniz: Discourse on metaphysics; correspondence with Arnauld, and Monadology (1916) VIII, p. 108.

English (original)

as there are an infinity of possible worlds, there are also an infinity of laws, certain ones appropriate to one; others, to another, and each possible individual of any world involves in its concept the laws of its world.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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