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Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist
Galileo Galilei, who in 1586 invented a hydrostatic balance for weighing metals in air and water inspired by the work of Archimedes, considered it "probable that this method is the same that Archimedes followed, since, besides being very accurate, it is based on demonstrations found by Archimedes himself."
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
Most historians agree Galileo did not act out of malice and felt blindsided by the reaction to his book.{{efn|Drake asserts that Simplicio's character is modelled on the Aristotelian philosophers Lodovico delle Colombe and Cesare Cremonini, rather than Urban. He also considers that the demand for Galileo to include the Pope's argument in the ''Dialogue'' left him with no option but to put it in the mouth of Simplicio. Even Arthur Koestler, who is generally quite harsh on Galileo in '' The Sleepwalkers'', after noting that Urban suspected Galileo of having intended Simplicio to be a caricature of him, says "this of course is untrue".}} However, the Pope did not take the suspected public ridicule lightly, nor the Copernican advocacy.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}
Arthur Koestler
Jewish Hungarian-British author and journalist
In June a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate to grant Koestler permanent residence in the U.S. Koestler sent tickets for the play to his House sponsor Richard Nixon and his Senate sponsor Owen Brewster, a close confidant of Joseph McCarthy.
Richard Nixon
In 1986, Nixon addressed a convention of newspaper publishers, impressing his audience with his ''tour d'horizon'' of the world. At the time, political punditElizabeth Drew wrote, "Even when he was wrong, Nixon still showed that he knew a great deal and had a capacious memory, as well as the capacity to speak with apparent authority, enough to impress people who had little regard for him in earlier times.
Elizabeth Drew
American political journalist and author|bot=PearBOT 5
She made regular appearances on "Agronsky and Company" and hosted her own interview program, ''Thirty Minutes With...'' for PBS between 1971 and 1973, for which she won an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award. Drew was a panelist for '' Meet the Press'' for many years and made frequent appearances on the PBS''News Hour'' when it was presented by Jim Lehrer and still occasionally appears on ''The NewsHour'' and other radio and television programs.
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist
Leibniz said "He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times." Gauss' heroes were Archimedes and Newton, and Moritz Cantor, who studied under him in the University of Göttingen, reported that he once remarked in conversation that “there had been only three epoch-making mathematicians: Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
Later Wagner explained that he did not fully believe in the Bible, though he confessed that he "envied" those who were able to easily believe.{{efn|{{harvnb|Dunnington|2004|p=305}} quotes: "league, I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, he added, with the expression of great inner emotion, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual laborers who could believe so rightly with their hearts, I always envied them, and now, he continued, with soft voice and that naive childlike manner peculiar to him, while a tear came to his eye, tell me how does one begin this?..."}} This later led them to discuss the topic of faith, and in some other religious remarks, Gauss said that he had been more influenced by theologians like Lutheran minister Paul Gerhardt than by Moses.{{sfn|Dunnington|2004|p=356|ps=: "I must confess that such old theologians and song writers as Paul Gerhard have always made a great impression on me; a song by Paul Gerhard always exerted a wonderful power on me, much more than, for example, Moses, against whom as a man of God I have all sorts of qualms.
Moses
Among the Presidents of the United States known to have used the symbolism of Moses were Harry S. Truman, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who referred to his supporters as "the Moses generation".
Jimmy Carter
In December 2008, Carter met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and in a June 2012 call with Jeffery Brown, Carter stressed Egyptian military generals could be granted full power executively and legislatively in addition to being able to form a new constitution in favor of themselves in case their announced intentions went through.
Jeffrey Brown (journalist)
American journalist|bot=PearBOT 5
Brown became part of the anchor team, when ''The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'' was renamed ''PBS NewsHour'' in December 2009; Jim Lehrer was joined every broadcast by either Judy Woodruff, Gwen Ifill, or Brown.
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist
Historians of science and mathematics almost universally agree that Archimedes was the finest mathematician from antiquity. Eric Temple Bell, for instance, wrote:
Eric Temple Bell
Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer
The book inspired notable mathematicians including Julia Robinson, John Forbes Nash, Jr., and Andrew Wiles to begin a career in mathematics.
Paul Wolfskehl
German physician and mathematician
Yet another story, told in ''The Man Who Loved Only Numbers'' by Paul Hoffman, tells that Wolfskehl actually missed his supposed suicide time because he was in the library studying the Theorem.
Paul Hoffman (science writer)
Author of at least ten books, he has appeared on ''CBS This Morning'' and ''The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'' as a correspondent.
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist
René Descartes rejected it as false, while modern researchers have attempted to recreate the effect using only the means that would have been available to Archimedes.
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
Humans should seek the sovereign good that Descartes, following Zeno, identifies with virtue, as this produces blessedness.
Zeno of Citium
Ancient Greek philosopher, founder of Stoicism
influenced = Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Panaetius, Posidonius, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Peter Kropotkin and many others
Epictetus
Prisoner of war James Stockdale receiving the Medal of Honor from American president Gerald Ford; Stockdale claims he was able to retain his sanity during capture by relying on the philosophy of Epictetus
James Stockdale, a fighter pilot who was shot down while serving in the Vietnam War, was influenced by Epictetus.
* [http://www.usna.edu/Ethics/_files/documents/stoicism2.pdf ''Stockdale on Stoicism II: Master of My Fate''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716024938/https://www.usna.edu/Ethics/_files/documents/Stoicism2.pdf |date=2021-07-16 }} by James Stockdale
James Stockdale
In a 1999 interview with Jim Lehrer, Stockdale explained that the statements were intended as an introduction of himself and his personal history to the television audience:
