Archimedes

"Nature is the greatest teacher of all."

"The only limit to our realization is our imagination."

"The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but the most interesting path is curved."

"I have not been able to discover the cause of wars ending, but I have discovered the cause of their beginning."

"Eureka! Not because I found gold, but because I found truth."

"In the stillness of mathematical contemplation, I find the loudest voice of God."

"A sand grain contains infinity; infinity contains but a sand grain."

"Do not disturb my circles, for in them lies the order of the universe."

"The wise man knows himself to be ignorant; the fool knows himself to be wise."

"Greater than any lever is the lever of thought."

"To measure the world, one must first understand measurement."

"The sea gives and the sea takes away; such is the cycle of all things."

"In water, I see the principles that govern the heavens."

"The mind is the strongest weapon ever forged by mankind."

"Forgive them, for they do not understand what they have taken from me."

"The crown of Syracuse matters less than the crown of understanding."

"To know thyself is to know the universe; to know the universe is to know thyself."

"Numbers are the language in which God speaks to us."

"The impossible is merely the untested."

"In geometry, there is no royal road, only the path of perseverance."

"A moment of discovery is worth a lifetime of ignorance."

"The burden of the body is light when the mind is free."

"What the hand of man can move, the mind of man can move further."

"In circles and spheres, I saw the face of eternity."

"The measure of all things is the measure of our understanding."

"War teaches us that peace is a science, not a gift."

"To create is to understand; to understand is to create."

"The sand of time slips through the hourglass, but truth remains eternal."

"Greater than the greatest king is the humblest mathematician."

"In the fall of empires, I see the rise of new ideas."