Archimedes Quotes

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.