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6accdae13eff7i3l9n4o4qrr4s8t12ux's Trifle

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Solution

author: Hannah Earley

The solution of this problem involves anagrams. Searching for '6accdae13eff7i3l9n4o4qrr4s8t12ux' on Google reveals it to be a form of proof-of-priority hash used by Newton to protect his theorem of calculus. (I can't remember the context, but trifle was also a reference to Newton for some obscure anecdote.) The procedure is to sort the letters in the phrase and then run-length encode them. Each list item is a result of this procedure, but for solvability it's applied only to individual words.

Solving each reveals the following quotes, and Google provides the authors:

"We shall therefore assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system." - Albert Einstein
"Thoughts are steered in different ways." - Stanislaw Ulam
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." - Marie Curie
"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting." - Gottfried Leibnitz
"I can be your hero, baby. I can kiss away the pain. I will stand by you forever. You can take my breath away." - Enrique Iglesias
"Cogito ergo sum" - René Descartes

The authors' surnames spell out EUCLID, the final answer.