"In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’……" — Unknown Author

More Eureka Quotes

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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
• 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… — 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… — Paul McCartney
• I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four… — Ronald Reagan
• Once you put bacon in a salad, it's no longer a salad. It just becomes a game of 'find the… — Jim Gaffigan
• People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, 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… — Richard Digance
• I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them.… — Stephanie Kwolek

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