Eureka Quotes

26 Eureka quotes by 22 unique authors

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
Eureka is Greek for ‘this bath is too hot’. — Tom Baker
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
Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny... — Isaac Asimov
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments — Anish Kapoor
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
I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. — Ronald Reagan
In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’ — Unknown Author
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
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
Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold. — Archimedes
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
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
Eureka! (I have found it!) — Archimedes
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
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
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
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
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
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
It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say,… — John Green
However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it… — Laurie R. King
Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or… — Jason Silva
Then I started thinking to the Destiny makers that continuously create new images y in books, on television or through other media that provide images.… — Sorin Cerin
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but 'That's funny...½ — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These Eureka Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 26 Eureka Quotes as follows: