"Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty."
"Eureka! Eureka! Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown."
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Source: Quoted in Pappus, Synagoge
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