Archimedes of Syracuse
A brilliant ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer, known for his work on buoyancy and levers.
Quotes by Archimedes of Syracuse
To measure is to know.
The greatest pleasure in life is to do what people say you cannot do.
The world is full of wonders, and our minds are meant to explore them.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but mathematical beauty is universal.
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
Death is not the end, but a transition.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
The universe is a symphony, and mathematics is its score.
Our lives are but a brief moment in the vastness of eternity.
The pursuit of truth is a divine quest.
To live is to learn, to learn is to grow.
The greatest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
The human spirit is indomitable.
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
Any solid heavier than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, sink to the bottom of the fluid, and the solid will, when weighed in the fluid, be lighter than its true weight by the weight of the fluid displaced.
The surface of any fluid at rest is the surface of a sphere whose centre is the same as that of the Earth.
The ratio of the surface area of a sphere to the surface area of its circumscribing cylinder (excluding the bases) is 2:3.
The ratio of the volume of a sphere to the volume of its circumscribing cylinder is 2:3.