Crowns Quote by Lucio Russo

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water…

— Plutarch

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

— Ernest Renan

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course…

— James Marsh

“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up…

— Tom Stoppard

Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if…

— Archimedes

He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers,…

— Josephine Tey

“A moment ago, when he entered this human aviary, the pictures, modestly enclosed in four wooden mouldings, remained flat and silent before him; in…

— Anonymous

“For many feverish years he was burdened with the sensation, an ancient one to be sure, that the incredible sprawl of human history was…

— Thomas Ligotti

“...that Figure so impressd it self upon my Mind that I have been in a manner walking towards it all my Life. Then I…

— Peter Ackroyd

“He was like some tragic figure in Greek mythology whose offenses against the gods had caused them to design for him this exquisite torture:…

— Michael Lewis

Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled…

— Rene Descartes

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and…

— Henry Ward Beecher