Archimedes
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“Reportedly his last words, said to a Roman soldier who, despite being given orders not to, killed Archimedes during the conquest of Syracuse; as quoted in World Literature: An Anthology of Human Experience (1947) by Arthur Christy, p. 655.”
“noli … istum disturbare”
“Noli turbare circulos meos . or Noli tangere circulos meos. Do not disturb my circles !”
“Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.”
“Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the world.”
“Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth.”
“Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world. This variant derives from an earlier source than Pappus: The Library of History of Diodorus Siculus , Fragments of Book XXVI , as translated by F. R. Walton, in Loeb Classical Library (1957) Vol. XI. In Doric Greek this may have originally been Πᾷ βῶ, καὶ χαριστίωνι τὰν γᾶν κινήσω πᾶσαν [ Pā bō, kai kharistiōni tan gān kinēsō [variant kinasō ] pāsan ].”
“Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world”
“What he exclaimed as he ran naked from his bath, realizing that by measuring the displacement of water an object produced, compared to its weight, he could measure its density (and thus determine the proportion of gold that was used in making a king's crown); as quoted by Vitruvius Pollio in De Architectura , ix.215;”