Eureka Quotes
26 quotes by 23 authors
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
— Isaac Asimov
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Eureka is Greek for ‘this bath is too hot’.
— Tom Baker
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And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing…
— Plutarch
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Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny...
— Isaac Asimov
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
— Anish Kapoor
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There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts…
— Paul McCartney
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I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.
— Ronald Reagan
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In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’
— Michael Hawley
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Once you put bacon in a salad, it's no longer a salad. It just becomes a game of 'find the bacon in the lettuce'. It's…
— Jim Gaffigan
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People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation…
— Roger Penrose
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Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.
— Archimedes
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Archimedes said Eureka, Cos in English he weren't too aversed in, when he discovered that the volume of a body in the bath, is equal…
— Richard Digance
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I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming a polymer solution…
— Stephanie Kwolek
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Eureka! (I have found it!)
— Archimedes
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This is Reagan country. Yeah! And perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and…
— Sarah Palin
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The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy diversity; they don't…
— Frank Luntz
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Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a…
— Joseph Plaskett
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With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to…
— Jodie Foster
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This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor…
— Steven Johnson
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You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka!…
— Douglas Coupland
Who Wrote These Eureka Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 26 Eureka Quotes as follows: