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ArchimedesRead
Rise above oneself and grasp the world.
Interpretation
This quote encourages individuals to transcend their personal limitations and seek greater understanding of the world.
Archimedes' quote suggests the importance of personal growth and self-improvement in order to gain a better grasp of the wider world. It implies that in order to influence our surroundings and achieve our potential, we must first rise above our own doubts, fears, and limitations. By doing so, we not only enhance our own lives but also positively impact the world around us.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire students to pursue their dreams.
Eureka! Eureka!_x000D_ _x000D_ Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to the empty. The trite objects of human efforts β possessions, outward success, luxuryβhave always seemed to me contemptible.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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