Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can’t learn history in reverse!
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth.
Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world. By Archimedes.
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.
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.
Rise above oneself and grasp the world.
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.
The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!
The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.
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.
The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.
Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.