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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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Leo punched some buttons and spun his Archimedes sphere.† (source)
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I had Archimedes on my side.† (source)
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The magus knew Archimedes's principle as well as I did.† (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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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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She could follow mathematics from Archimedes to today's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.† (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, Nathan," Tyler said, sighing.† (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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But why should we worry ourselves that Proust and Hume and Aristotle and Archimedes are all fading into oblivion?† (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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But young Archimedes figured that out, too.† (source)
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Come, Archimedes, I want you to meet a friend of mine called Wart.† (source)
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After pointlessly multiplying pi by diameter to find the circumference of innumerable circles, pi by the square of the radius to find their area, the prosecutor increasingly began to wonder if since the days of Archimedes humanity had not just been making the whole thing too complicated, if the solution to the problem was not childishly simple.† (source)
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'Dos pou sto,' said Archimedes.† (source)
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