34 Quotes by Archimedes

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

Eureka! Eureka! Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.

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

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

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.

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.

It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite sides respectively.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!