"O vanity! you are the lever by means……" — Mikhail Lermontov

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• There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in… — Voltaire
• Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a… — 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… — Ernest Dimnet
• Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
• And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown… — Plutarch
• Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances.… — 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… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
• Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my… — Joseph Conrad
• Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
• Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. — Ernst Mach

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