The Diameter Of The Earth Is Greater

Give Me A Place To Stand, And A Lever Long Enough, And I Will Move The World.

Many People Believe That The Grains Of Sand Are Infinite In Multitude ... Others Think That Although Their Number Is Not Without Limit, No Number Can Ever Be Named Which Will Be Greater Than The Number Of Grains Of Sand. But I Shall Try To Prove To You That Among The Numbers Which I Have Named There Are Those Which Exceed The Number Of Grains In A Heap Of Sand The Size Not Only Of The Earth, But Even Of The Universe

Eureka, Eureka! (i Found It, I Found It!).

Spoken Of The Young Archimedes: . . . [he] Was As Much Enchanted By The Rudiments Of Algebra As He Would Have Been If I Had Given Him An Engine Worked By Steam, With A Methylated Spirit Lamp To Heat The Boiler; More Enchanted, Perhaps For The Engine Would Have Got Broken, And, Remaining Always Itself, Would In Any Case Have Lost Its Charm, While The Rudiments Of Algebra Continued To Grow And Blossom In His Mind With An Unfailing Luxuriance. Every Day He Made The Discovery Of Something Which Seemed To Him Exquisitely Beautiful; The New Toy Was Inexhaustible In Its Potentialities.

Those Who Claim To Discover Everything But Produce No Proofs Of The Same May Be Confuted As Having Actually Pretended To Discover The Impossible.