Quotes from Archimedes

Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.

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

Eureka! - I have found it!

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

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

Eureka! [I have found it!]

Either of my contemporaries or of my successors, will, by means of the method when once established, be able to discover other theorems in addition, which have not yet occurred to me.

Give me a lever and I will move the earth

Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth.

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

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

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

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

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

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

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