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Eureka! - I have found it!
Archimedes / Mathematician
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Eureka
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
Anish Kapoor / Sculptor
Grows
Moments
Eureka
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There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.
John Williams / Scientist
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Moments
Theme
Vader
Darth
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Head
Imperial
Maybe
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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 / Author
Funny
Inspirational
Motivational
Science
Exciting
Most
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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 / Physicist
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Little Things
Moments
People
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Thinking
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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 / Actress
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Character
Moments
Taxi
Driver
Moment Character Me
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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 / Singer
Add
Cream
Homemade
Best Always Know
Chicken
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'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 / Actor
Eureka
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A brilliant mind having a eureka moment could not create an Intel microprocessor containing a billion transistors any more than one person could dream up a Boeing 787 from scratch.
Vaclav Smil / Professor
Brilliant
Containing
Billion
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'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 /
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
Walter O'brien /
Absolutes
Ambiguity
Engineers
Fuzzy
Requirements
Software
Applications
Broader
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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 / Television Personality
Experience
Concepts
Creativity
Ideas
Insight
Patterns
Recognition
Something New
Acute
Almost
Between
Disparate
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'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 / Film Director
Greed
Timing
Good Man World
Be Happy
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Richest
Richest Man
Thatcher
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In many competitive worlds like luxury, things are done behind closed doors and with secrecy, so one day I had a eureka moment: for one weekend we show everything, full transparency, forget about business or commerce and showcase our work.
Antoine Arnault /
Closed Doors
Commerce
Doors
Luxury
Secrecy
Showcase
Transparency
Closed
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Worlds
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When I realised, on 'The Straits,' that physical work in the theatre takes much longer than directing scenes, it was like a eureka moment. If you want to work physically, you have to accommodate it, and it takes a disproportionate amount of time.
John Tiffany /
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Directing
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We insist on celebrating lone heroic path-finders, but even the most admired and the most successful inventors are part of a more remarkable supply chain of innovators who are largely ignored for the simpler mythology of one man or one eureka moment.
Vaclav Smil / Professor
Heroic
Ignored
Innovators
Lone
Mythology
Remarkable
Supply Chain
Admired
Celebrating
Chain
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Simpler
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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 / Football Player
Rings
Tape
Dish
Eureka
Satellite
Terry
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I was very excited to do 'The Witches.' It was with one of my favorite directors, Nick Roeg, and I loved his work from 'Don't Look Now' and 'Eureka.' So I was very excited to work with him. The story was a very subversive fairy tale by Roald Dahl, and a fantastic part.
Anjelica Huston / Actress
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Subversive
Witches
Eureka
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Tale
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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 / Journalist
Best
Deadline
Dog
Heard
Ideas
Juggling
Moments
Rushing
Soaking
Upside Down
Voice
Walking
World Your Voice
Best World Your
Come
Make
Bath
Those
Down
Emails
Eureka
Hammock
Meet
Meeting
Seldom
Swinging
Turn
Upside
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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 / Artist
Humor
Association
Cards
Deck
Sense Of Humor
Villain
Joker
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Literally
Yelled
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What's lovely about 'Eureka' is that it's a sci-fi show, but it's not monsters from outer space; it's not craziness from outer space. It's just about this community of people and what they do. These geniuses have sometimes done wonderful things and sometimes created global warming. It has this wonderful left-of-center sense of humor.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Humor
Space
Craziness
Done
Global Warming
Lovely
Monsters
Outer Space
Sci Fi
Sense Of Humor
Wonderful
Wonderful Things
Show
Eureka
Geniuses
Global
Outer
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Warming
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