Archimedes Quotes

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

Eureka! (I have found it!).

Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5.

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.

The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.

Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than the diameter of the earth.

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!).

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.

Give me where to stand and I will move the earth.

Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth