Archimedes Quotes

Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)

Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, philosopher, scientist and engineer.

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Native Name: Ἀρχιμήδης ὁ Συρακόσιος

Alternative Names: Archimedes of Syracuse

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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.

Fellow, stand away from my diagram.

The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.

Noli turbare circulos meos. or Noli tangere circulos meos.

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

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

I thought fit to... explain in detail in the same book the peculiarity of a certain method, by which it will be possible... to investigate some of the problems in mathematics by means of mechanics. This procedure is... no less useful even for the proof of the theorems themselves; for certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry afterwards... But it is of course easier, when we have previously acquired, by the method, some knowledge of the questions, to supply the proof than it is to find it without any previous knowledge.

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