"Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty."
"Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold."
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Source: On the Equilibrium of Planes. Treatise by Archimedes, Book 1, Propositions 6 & 7, The Law of the Lever,
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