Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death,… — 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
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out! — Archimedes Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated… — 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