Probably so. Did he streak across Syracuse? Probably not. Also, most of what we know about Archimedes was written well after he was dead. Well, both stories about Newton and Archimedes speak to the need to quiet the mind and be contemplative. Also, the putting together of disparate things—a falling apple and gravity, an overflowing bathtub and specific gravity. It tells us that creativity needs a space to thrive.
Also, many scientists get creative ideas when they let themselves play. Alexander Fleming [the biologist who serendipitously discovered penicillin] loved games. When you grow bacteria on plates, they have different colors and shapes.
He would paint pictures on the agar using different colors [of bacteria]—a picture of a ballerina for example. You have to know the basics of your field well in order to relax them a little to see what happens.
Actor John Cleese likens creativity to a tortoise. But if you give it space for contemplative thinking and you give it the time, it grows. It's an analogy everybody understands. Eureka stories are a compression of decades and decades of work into one inspirational moment.
It's like a parable. All rights reserved. The story of Newton and the falling apple is recorded in an 18th-century manuscript in the Royal Society in London. What gives the tale such long legs? Point taken. So narratives of scientific discovery, like any other, get polished after the fact.
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Think of things that you know aren't true. The catch- phrase … comes, of course, from the tale about Archimedes. The O. A ha the fox! Archimedes , born c. Archimedes is especially important for his discovery of the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder. State Symbols: California State Library. Which scientist said Eureka Eureka? Category: events and attractions religious events. What is Eureka famous for? How do you use Eureka in a sentence?
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