Top 15 Eureka Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Eureka Quotes from famous people such as Isaac Asimov, Sid Gillman, Vaclav Smil, Anjelica Huston, Jason Silva, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one th

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’
Isaac Asimov
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
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
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
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
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
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
Anish Kapoor
Not only does the title ‘We’re Here’ highlight the fact that me, Shangela, and Eureka are here, but we as a queer community, we were already here. We were already existing in your space before these drag queens showed up with a big purse bus.
Bob the Drag Queen
There are occasionally eureka moments – off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader’s theme, you know, the imperial march.
John Williams
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
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
‘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
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
‘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