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