Archimedes

-286–-211 · Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)

Topics: mathematics, physics

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

  — Archimedes

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

  — Archimedes

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

  — Archimedes