Yet it was just that lever dexterously applied, and carefully weighted with the whole weight of his endlessly accumulated inductive instances, that finally enabled our modern archimedes to move the world."
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
"Where I may stand:" The alleged saying of archimedes-"I could move the world had I a place for my fulcrum-'where I might stand' to move it."
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
When therefore the great majority of men of Science, declare that the fact of genetic Transformism is established beyond the possibility of doubt, Evolutionists find themselves supplied with a plausible foothold on which to stand and rest their fulcrum, while, like archimedes, they proceed to move the world.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard