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Archimedes
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    Archimedes was a Greek scientist who said 'Give me a firm point on which to stand and I will move the earth.'†  (source)
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    I had Archimedes on my side.†  (source)
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    Still, she seemed to be having a wonderful time our senior year teaching us physics, using her tiny salary to buy things to demonstrate her lesson of the day: Boyle's Law (a balloon), Archimedes's Principle (flat iron and wooden toy boat), centripetal and centrifugal forces (a yo-yo).†  (source)
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    'Dos pou sto,' said Archimedes.†  (source)
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    The magus knew Archimedes's principle as well as I did.†  (source)
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    Try Archimedes—it's usually less crowded.†  (source)
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    As the water began to splash over his skinny but unmuscled stomach, he thought of Archimedes.†  (source)
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    She could follow mathematics from Archimedes to today's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.†  (source)
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    You don't have to have Archimedes talking about rabbits and turtles to know that: when you start in with negative numbers, as we do with young schoolchildren, you are singing like a Druid.†  (source)
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    To break windows for robbery, to determine depth of wells, to use as ammunition, as pendulum, to practice carving, wall building, to demonstrate Archimedes' Principle, as part of abstract sculpture, costh, ballast, weight for dropping things in river, etc., as a hammer, keep door open, footwiper, use as rubble for path filling, chock, weight on scale, to prop up wobbly table, paperweight, as firehearth, to block up rabbit hole.†  (source)
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    He was drawing in this circle geometrical lines, and seemed as much absorbed in his problem as Archimedes was when the soldier of Marcellus slew him.†  (source)
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    But young Archimedes figured that out, too.†  (source)
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    "Archimedes, Nathan," Tyler said, sighing.†  (source)
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