Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5.

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

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

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

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

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

Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

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

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

Eureka! (I have found it!).

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

There is never only one, of anyone

The volume of twaddle from critics is directly proportional to the distance you keep from them. There is always room to spread your wings when you fly solo.

One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first.

It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

I would have thought that they [Boris Johnson and Nigel Farag] would have had a plan,instead of developing a plan they are leaving the boat.

I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record.