Quotes About Eureka

It wasn't an 'event.' It was a motherfucking revelation.

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.

obvious solution, and marveled that no one had

An idea springs out of his forehead fully formed, with no warning. This is how all the best ideas arrive.

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

we are all guilty of oversimplification at one point or another. It's an enticing idea. It fulfills our need for instant gratification. We find one thing and scream, "Eureka!" We found IT—the one thing that explains it all. The only trouble is that it never works. We are more likely to squeeze gold from our coffee grinder than we are to meet with success when adopting an idea that has been simplified beyond recognition.

Searching for that flash of inspiration, that moment, the magical moment: 'I've got it. I've got it. This is how we are going to win.

What is this moment called when we suddenly recognize what we have never seen? And which gives us a joy like a wound?

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

I couldn't figure out how the seat belt worked. Then it just clicked.

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.

I always have homemade chicken stock in the refrigerator. I'll reduce it, maybe add a little cream and a few shallots. Before you know it, eureka! It's the best.

It is characteristic of insight solutions and new ideas that they should be obvious after they have been found.

Such heuristics determine whether a flood of data offers up a "Eureka!" or we suffer from information overload. That decision (Got it! versus Too much information) emanates from a thin strip in the brain's prefrontal area, the dorsolateral circuits.

Es gibt kein größeres Glück als die plötzlich aufflammende Lösung eines Problems.

But without warning, she leapt up with a gasp of excitement. "Guys," she said. "You need to see this.

If you had such a secret, I And all my fiendish flock, my incubi, Succubi, imps and cacodemons, would have leapt Out of our bath of brimming brimstone, crying Eureka, cherchez, la femme!—Emperors Would be colonizing you, their mistresses Patronizing you, ministers of state Governmentalizing you. And you Would be eulogized, lionized, probably Canonized for your divine mishap.

So that's what it is!" he suddenly exclaimed aloud. "What joy!

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'

There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!

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.