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… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
“Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world. By Archimedes” — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse! — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Eureka! Eureka! Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
