Archimedes Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. Give me a place to stand and rest my lever on, and I can move the Earth.

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#5. It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite
sides respectively.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.

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

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#9. 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.

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

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

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

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#13. Dont disturb my circles!

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

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

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

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#17. 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.

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

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#19. Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

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

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#21. Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

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

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#23. Eureka! - I have found it!

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#24. Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world. By Archimedes

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

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#26. 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.

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