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Archimedes
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    I had Archimedes on my side.†  (source)
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    All the physical laws of human history, from Archimedes' principle to string theory, and all the scientific discoveries and intellectual fruits of our species are the by-products of this great law.†  (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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    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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    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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    'Dos pou sto,' said Archimedes.†  (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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    "Archimedes, Nathan," Tyler said, sighing.†  (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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    Come, Archimedes, I want you to meet a friend of mine called Wart.†  (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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