Archimedes Quotes

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

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

“...I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..”

“Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. “Immortality” may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.”

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

“Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.”

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

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

“One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking about Einstein. Hardy had met him several times, and I had recently returned from visiting him. Hardy was saying that in his lifetime there had only been two men in the world, in all the fields of human achievement, science, literature, politics, anything you like, who qualified for the Bradman class. For those not familiar with cricket, or with Hardy's personal idiom, I ought to mention that “the Bradman class” denoted the highest kind of excellence: it would include Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Newton, Archimedes, and maybe a dozen others. Well, said Hardy, there had only been two additions in his lifetime. One was Lenin and the other Einstein.”

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