Lucio Russo Quotes:

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.

- Lucio Russo

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

topic: Writing, Water, Naked, Geometric

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