A Quote by Archimedes

Eureka! - I have found it!

Archimedes

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Archimedes
Greek - Mathematician
287 BC - 212 BC

Eureka! (I have found it!).

Archimedes

Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!).

Archimedes

Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.

Archimedes

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

"Eureka" is Greek for "This bath is too hot."

Tom Baker

In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’

Michael Hawley

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Isaac Asimov

The cliché of the 'Eureka!' moment easily obscures the doubt and uncertainty that are also part of the discovery process.

Janet Maslin

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

There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.

John Williams

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

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.

Johnny Mathis

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 interlinked to the Golden State.