Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Archimedes
- Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can’t learn history in reverse!
- There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.
- Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.
- 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.
- 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.
- Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.
- The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.
- Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
- Give me a place to stand and rest my lever on, and I can move the Earth.
Archimedes, born circa 287 BCE in the ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse, was a brilliant mathematician, physicist, engineer, and inventor. Regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of antiquity, his contributions had a profound impact on various fields.
Archimedes made groundbreaking discoveries in geometry, including the calculation of pi and the development of the method of exhaustion for determining the area under a curve. His work in mechanics laid the foundation for the study of fluid mechanics, with the famous principle named after him, Archimedes’ principle, which explains buoyancy.
During the Siege of Syracuse, Archimedes utilized his engineering prowess to design innovative war machines, such as the famous “Archimedes’ screw” for raising water and the claw-like “iron hand” used to grasp and sink enemy ships.
His legacy extended beyond his lifetime, influencing later scientists and thinkers, and his work continued to shape scientific and mathematical progress for centuries. Archimedes’ intellectual brilliance and practical inventions solidified his place in history as a polymath and one of the foremost minds of ancient Greece.
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