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I found this accidentally and wonder where it came from--it does not seem to be from ancient writings. Aldous Huxley is given a credit, but as someone who quoted it. If anyone knows, please let me find out.
A Quote by Archimedes on charm, day, discovery, losing, mind, and spirit:
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.
Archimedes (c.. 287 - 212 BC)
Source: quoted by Aldous Huxley
Contributed by: Zaady
A Quote by Archimedes on charm, day, discovery, losing, mind, and spirit:
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.
Archimedes (c.. 287 - 212 BC)
Source: quoted by Aldous Huxley
Contributed by: Zaady
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