Archimedes Quotes
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Archimedes Quotes & Sayings
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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
— Ernest Dimnet
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
— Felix Klein
Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
— Archimedes
I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..
— John Geddes
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
I can see that you spoke in ignorance, and I bitterly regret that I should have been so petty as to take offence where none was intended.
— T.H. White
There's nothing new under the sun - everything can be traced
back to Archimedes or even earlier. — Stanislaw Ulam
back to Archimedes or even earlier. — Stanislaw Ulam
Eureka! - I have found it!
— Archimedes
Rise above oneself and grasp the world.
— Archimedes
Dont disturb my circles!
— Archimedes
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
— Ernst Mach
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
— Gottfried Leibniz
If you even suggest to my crew that you've threatened your way aboard my lady, I'll rip out your spine."
"That's unbearably arousing. — Meljean Brook
"That's unbearably arousing. — Meljean Brook
Oh vanity! You are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to raise the earthly globe!
— Mikhail Lermontov
The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.
— Archimedes
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
— Archimedes
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
— Thomas Jefferson
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.
— Archimedes
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
— Mikhail Lermontov
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
— Archimedes
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
— Archimedes
Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.
— Archimedes
A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but
surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason
better. — Paul Halmos
surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason
better. — Paul Halmos
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
— Ernest Renan
Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world. By Archimedes
— Archimedes
Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
— William Rowan Hamilton