Archimedes Mathematical Quotes

#1. [On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation ... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it.

Proclus

#2. Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

G.H. Hardy

#3. When I started, I was told that, for all intents and purposes, I was playing a human, which made it easier. Until they told me, 'Grace, you're a Cylon, she wouldn't do that.' And later, I learned that Cylons are actually more human than humans. This has been an ongoing exploration.

Grace Park

#4. It's a curious, wanting thing.

Sarah Waters

#5. Why did it take so long for a Darwin to arrive on the scene? What delayed humanity's tumbling to that luminously simple idea which seems, on the face of it, so much easier to grasp than the mathematical ideas given us by Newton two centuries earlier - or, indeed, by Archimedes two millennia earlier?

Richard Dawkins

#6. Never throw a butcher knife in anger.

Homer

#7. If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

Kim Dae-jung

#8. Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

Andy Hargreaves

#9. After the death of Archimedes in 212 BCE, the topic of motion was effectively abandoned; it did not resurface for another 1,400 years, when Gerard of Brussels revived the mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes and came very close to defining speed as a ratio of distance to time.

Joseph Mazur

#10. I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

Walter F. Mondale

#11. I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

Charlie Kaufman