Archimedes Quotes

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

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I'll move the world

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

First then I will set out the very first theorem which became known to me by means of mechanics, namely that Any segment of a section of a right angled cone (i.e., a parabola) is four-thirds of the triangle which has the same base and equal height,
and after this I will give each of the other theorems investigated by the same method. Then at the end of the book I will give the geometrical [proofs of the propositions]...

The centre of gravity of any hemisphere [is on the straight line which] is its axis, and divides the said straight line in such a way that the portion of it adjacent to the surface of the hemisphere has to the remaining portion the ratio which 5 has to 3.

Give me a firm spot on which to stand and I will move the earth

In any triangle the centre of gravity lies on the straight line joining any angle to the middle point of the opposite side.

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

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

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

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

Dont disturb my circles!

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

I am persuaded that it [The Method of Mechanical Theorems] will be of no little service to mathematics; for I apprehend that some, 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.

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