O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes…

It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes, were introduced into…

— Sophus Lie

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did…

— Alexandre Dumas

Archimedes said Eureka, Cos in English he weren't too aversed in, when he discovered that the volume of a body in the bath, is…

— Richard Digance

About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting 'Heureka!', plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he…

— Lucio Russo

“Archimedes was a mathematician," blurted Ethan from the back of the room. "And he was Greek. And he invented things." Ethan was the sort…

— Adam Rex

“Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world. By Archimedes”

— Archimedes

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water…

— Plutarch

“In some strata of Greek and Roman society the engineer was actually denigrated, higher esteem being accorded to poets, playwrights and sculptors. According to…

— Stephanie Dalley

“...I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..”

— John Geddes

“Oh vanity! You are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to raise the earthly globe!”

— Mikhail Lermontov

... there's nothing new under the sun - everything can be traced back to Archimedes or even earlier.

— Stanislaw Ulam

“To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the…

— Thomas Little Heath

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes…

— Voltaire

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought,…

— Nikola Tesla