Archimedes
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.Collection: Wisdom
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.Collection: Secret
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.Collection: Moving
Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!Collection: Past
Rise above oneself and grasp the world.Collection: World
Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.Collection: May
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.Collection: Graduation
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.Collection: Math
Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universeCollection: Believe
Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.Collection: Distance
Eureka! (I have found it!).Collection: Discovery
The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.Collection: Lying
The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than the diameter of the earth.Collection: Moon
The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.Collection: Axes
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.Collection: Education
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!Collection: Firsts
The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.Collection: Earth
Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.Collection: Distance
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.Collection: Beautiful
Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.Collection: Discovery
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.Collection: Writing
Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry afterwards because their investigation by the said method did not furnish an actual demonstration. But it is of course easier, when we have previously acquired by the method, some knowledge of the questions, to supply the proof than it is to find it without any previous knowledge.Collection: Firsts
Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!).Collection: Found