Top 32 Best Eureka Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.
John Williams
#4. Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ...
Isaac Asimov
#5. 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
#6. Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
Anish Kapoor
#7. The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.
Don DeLillo
#8. 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
#9. If Arkansas is, indeed, one big family, Eureka Springs remains its eccentric uncle.
Rex Nelson
#10. It was hardly a Eureka moment, although possibly as close to one as I was going to get.
T.R. Richmond
#11. Walking through the West Village one night, he had a eureka moment: He would make a gay bar, but for straight people. It was a brilliant idea. Soon after, he opened the first T.G.I. Friday's on the Upper East Side.
Moira Weigel
#12. But those stories inspire observations and experiments that do help us sort out what's going on. The science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov reportedly once said, "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.
Frans De Waal
#13. Don't turn your back on what you love because you're scared
Lauren Kate
#15. The technical definition of heuristic is a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions. The word comes from the same root as eureka.
Daniel Kahneman
#16. 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
#17. I thought love was supposed to make a person more alive," Eureka said. "Your love is ... like I used to be - suicidal.
Lauren Kate
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Who can know the ending until the last word has been written? Everything might change with the last word.
Lauren Kate
#21. The inventors of tools enhance civilization,
but the author of ideas enables them to invent.
Toba Beta
#22. Eureka didn't voice her perverse enjoyment at dressing as an object with a second life when it was dead.
Lauren Kate
#23. 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
#24. And honesty is the hardest part
yeah honesty is the highest art
and honestly i myself just started
and eureka i'm less broken-hearted
Ani DiFranco
#25. Sometimes when you try not to repeat your mistakes, you forget that the original mistakes are still unfolding
Lauren Kate
#26. 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
#27. The wind wove the ribbon between Eureka's fingers and blew a sudden lightness into her chest.
She recognized the sensation distantly - it was an old friend, returned after a long prodigal journey: hope.
Lauren Kate
#28. He told Eureka the only heat to use when you loved a sauce is the softest simmer.
Lauren Kate
#29. Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.
Archimedes
#30. I tape every game I can get my hands on. Every game that's on TV, I tape it. My daughter, Terry Hill, lives in Eureka, and she has a satellite dish, so she tapes what I can't get. I try to keep up with what everybody is doing, so if the phone rings, I'll be ready.
Sid Gillman
#32. 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! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.
Douglas Coupland
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