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Eureka! - I have found it! -- Archimedes
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' -- Isaac Asimov
The Office' is clearly the funniest show on TV. But I can't live without watching 'Eureka.' It's my favorite show of all time, and I watch it constantly on my iPod. -- Matthew Underwood
Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on. -- Tim Hunt
Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step. -- Nicolas Roeg
Eureka! (I have found it!) -- Archimedes
Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny... -- Isaac Asimov
Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!). -- Archimedes
Eureka is Greek for â??this bath is too hot'. -- Tom Baker
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Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold. -- Archimedes
I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. -- Ronald Reagan
The clichÃ© of the 'Eureka!' moment easily obscures the doubt and uncertainty that are also part of the discovery process. -- Janet Maslin
I heard sad choirs in my mind. There was nothing left of Rachel in the world. He cherished what he'd shown me, and now it was gone. Eureka. -- Scott Kelly
Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity. -- Peter James
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 inter-linked to the Golden State. -- Sarah Palin
I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. -- Tim Berners-Lee
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 like you're panning for gold. Eureka! -- Jim Gaffigan
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 is as mysterious as if it were God speaking. -- Laurie R. King
Eureka! Eureka! 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. -- Archimedes
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 over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!". -- Plutarch
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments. -- Anish Kapoor
There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march. -- John Williams
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 built on that. -- Roger Penrose
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 ideas to reveal something new. -- Jason Silva
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 build a character that wasn't me. -- Jodie Foster
Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock. -- Carl Honore
So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name "the Joker" immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, 'Eureka!' because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time. -- Jerry Robinson
The greatest eureka moment is discovering yourself -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
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 longer. -- Paul McCartney
Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle. -- Joseph Plaskett
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 create any incentives; they don't produce solar, hydro, nuclear. -- Frank Luntz

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