Archimedes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Secret #Mathematics #Pure Love
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
-- Archimedes

#Graduation #Determination #Moving
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.
-- Archimedes

#Running #Jumping #Discovery
Eureka! (I have found it!)
-- Archimedes

#Discovery #Found
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.
-- Archimedes

#Moving #Science #Long
Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!
-- Archimedes

#Past #Men #Reverse
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.
-- Archimedes

#Men #Incredibles #Mathematics
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.
-- Archimedes

#Math #Littles #Spheres
Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.
-- Archimedes

#Beautiful #Discovery #Broken
Rise above oneself and grasp the world.
-- Archimedes

#World #Rise Above #Oneself
Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.
-- Archimedes

#Discovery #Gold #Tests
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.
-- Archimedes

#Writing #Spheres #Cylinders
Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!).
-- Archimedes

#Found

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