There Are Things Which Seem Incredible To

Rise Above Oneself And Grasp The World.

Spoken Of The Young Archimedes: . . . [he] Was As Much Enchanted By The Rudiments Of Algebra As He Would Have Been If I Had Given Him An Engine Worked By Steam, With A Methylated Spirit Lamp To Heat The Boiler; More Enchanted, Perhaps For The Engine Would Have Got Broken, And, Remaining Always Itself, Would In Any Case Have Lost Its Charm, While The Rudiments Of Algebra Continued To Grow And Blossom In His Mind With An Unfailing Luxuriance. Every Day He Made The Discovery Of Something Which Seemed To Him Exquisitely Beautiful; The New Toy Was Inexhaustible In Its Potentialities.

The Diameter Of The Earth Is Greater Than The Diameter Of The Moon And The Diameter Of The Sun Is Greater Than The Diameter Of The Earth.

Two Magnitudes Whether Commensurable Or Incommensurable, Balance At Distances Reciprocally Proportional To The Magnitudes.

Eureka, Eureka! (i Found It, I Found It!).