"About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. ... One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings."

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Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

Lucio Russo

#Writing Quotes #Water Quotes #Naked Quotes

“My colors are logically chosen.”
“There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent anything. There are two items on the menu: comedy and tragedy.”
“I'm so happy for anyone who chooses to get married! I want more people to join the club.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such desperate measures as "supposing you ever want to eat again") eventually produced the grudging promise that, in return for Katronia keeping her hair cut short, she would leave her eyelashes alone.”
“The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway. Rather, the car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.”

Source : "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling". Book by David E. Nye, 2000.
“Aromatherapy conveys the concept of healing with aromatic substances.”

Source : Robert Tisserand (1988). “Aromatherapy: To Heal and Tend the Body”, Lotus Press (WI)
“A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance that we might hear a faint rustle among the blossoms, and find ourselves staring into a pair of sleepy green eyes.”
“I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.”

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