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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.

Many People Believe That The Grains Of Sand Are Infinite In Multitude ... Others Think That Although Their Number Is Not Without Limit, No Number Can Ever Be Named Which Will Be Greater Than The Number Of Grains Of Sand. But I Shall Try To Prove To You That Among The Numbers Which I Have Named There Are Those Which Exceed The Number Of Grains In A Heap Of Sand The Size Not Only Of The Earth, But Even Of The Universe

Those Who Claim To Discover Everything But Produce No Proofs Of The Same May Be Confuted As Having Actually Pretended To Discover The Impossible.

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.

There Are Things Which Seem Incredible To Most Men Who Have Not Studied Mathematics.