34 Quotes by Archimedes

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

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

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

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

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

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

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

Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry afterwards because their investigation by the said method did not furnish an actual demonstration. 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.

I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.