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- There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head… — Voltaire
- Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — G. H. Hardy
- Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus? — William Rowan Hamilton
- Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's… — Ernest Dimnet
- O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! — Mikhail Lermontov
- Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
- And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing… — Plutarch
- Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor,… — Nikola Tesla
- The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein
- It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but… — Joseph Conrad
- Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert