There Are Things Which Seem

Eureka! (i Have Found It!).

Give Me But A Firm Spot On Which To Stand, And I Shall Move The Earth.

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.

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.

Two Magnitudes Whether Commensurable Or Incommensurable, Balance At Distances Reciprocally Proportional To The Magnitudes.