Quotes by Archimedes

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

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

“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!”

“Rise above oneself and grasp the world.”

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

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

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

“Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe”

“Eureka! Eureka!Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.”

“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!).”