Archimedes Quote by William Rowan Hamilton

About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting 'Heureka!', plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he…

— Lucio Russo

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

— Ernest Renan

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

Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or…

— Plutarch

“The mightiest kings have had their minions; Great Alexander loved Hephaestion, The conquering Hercules for Hylas wept; And for Patroclus, stern Achilles drooped. And…

— Christopher Marlowe

“with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the…

— Gaston Leroux

“I wish you to recollect that the greatest conquerors are not always the greatest kings. The nations of the earth have often been subjugated…

— Audrey Truschke

“[Arren] was proud of his lineage, but thought of himself as an heir of princes, one of the House of Enlad. Morred, from whom…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation…

— Seneca the Younger

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world. He could have stood…

— Neil Gaiman

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

— Plautus