Archimedes Quotes
- 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…
- There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.
- Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!
- 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…
- Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I…
- Rise above oneself and grasp the world.
- Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.
- Eureka! (I have found it!)
- Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.
- Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
- Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
- The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
- Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.