Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

Archimedes

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Archimedes

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

Archimedes

Eureka! - I have found it!

Archimedes

The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.

Archimedes

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

Archimedes

The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than the diameter of the earth.

Archimedes

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Archimedes

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

Archimedes

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

Archimedes

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

Archimedes

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

Archimedes