Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.

I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.

Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry afterwards because their investigation by the said method did not furnish an actual demonstration. But it is of course easier, when we have previously acquired by the method, some knowledge of the questions, to supply the proof than it is to find it without any previous knowledge.