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Archimedes Quotes

b. 287 BC Greece

Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, philosopher, scientist and engineer.

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Also known as: Archimides

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

The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.

In any triangle the centre of gravity lies on the straight line joining any angle to the middle point of the opposite side.

Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world.

Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

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

Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.

If two equal weights have not the same centre of gravity, the centre of gravity of both taken together is at the middle point of the line joining their centres of gravity.

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.

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

On Spirals (-225)

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

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

On Spirals (-225)

The centre of gravity of any cone is [the point which divides its axis so that] the portion [adjacent to the vertex is] triple [of the portion adjacent to the base].

Do not disturb my circles!

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.

The centre of gravity of any hemisphere [is on the straight line which] is its axis, and divides the said straight line in such a way that the portion of it adjacent to the surface of the hemisphere has to the remaining portion the ratio which 5 has to 3.

Any segment of a right-angled conoid (i.e., a paraboloid of revolution) cut off by a plane at right angles to the axis is 1½ times the cone which has the same base and the same axis as the segment

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