Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
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… — 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