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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Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

If two equal weights have not the same centre of gravity, the centre of gravity of both taken together is at the middle point of the line joining their centres of gravity.

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

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!

Noli turbare circulos meos. or Noli tangere circulos meos.

Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.

δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω. [Dôs moi pâ stô, kaì tàn gân kinásō.]

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