"Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty."
"Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained."
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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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