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«He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.»
Author: Alexandre Dumas
(Novelist, Playwright)
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Archimedes, gently, lever, levers, multiplied, racking, tapped
«Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions»
«The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
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Archimedes, sacrificed, schoolboy, schoolboys, simplest
«I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that . . . the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
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Apostle, Apostle Paul, Archimedes, Paul, Sculptor, Socrates, tentmaker, The Apostle
«YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and clows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost! --Polydore Smith»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Archimedes, assassin, bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, Cassandra, clover, clovers, delivering, endowing, figs, fulcrum, Golden Age, homer, silken, snore, snores, snoring, The Golden Age, thistle, thistles, whistles
«Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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absentminded, accent, Archimedes, commands, engines, lever, levers, mathematical
«The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.»
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