Eureka Quotes

“Eureka" can be an answer to a question we have never asked. It can be the articulation of a sudden and unforeseen idea or the expression of a magic moment that throws us into a new world. It acts like a radiant sunbeam that comes out of the blue and illuminates a dim past, opening a new, dynamic horizon. It may even be a trivial but lucky encounter with new friends, who let us be what we are in our imagination: original and undifferentiated. (“Waiting for Eureka” )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“We should never despair. Beyond, there is hope! In the meantime, there is resilience. ("Waiting for Eureka")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Marijuana enhances our mind in a way that enables us to take a different perspective from 'high up', to see and evaluate our own lives and the lives of others in a privileged way. Maybe this euphoric and elevating feeling of the ability to step outside
the box and to look at life’s patterns from this high perspective is the inspiration behind the slang term “high” itself.”
― Sebastian Marincolo

“It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.”
― Francis Crick, What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery

“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.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“Scientists may have sophisticated laboratories,
But never forget 'eureka' was inspired in a bathtub.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Eureka .. Eureka!”
― Hergé

“y ocurrió
que casi al terminar el cigarrillo
el hombre se golpeó la frente
dijo carajo
que es el equivalente nacional de eureka
y se detuvo”
― Humberto Costantini, Cuestiones con la vida: Antología poética

“Sometimes when you try not to repeat your mistakes, you forget that the original mistakes are still unfolding”
― Lauren Kate, Waterfall

“Not belonging is the greatest gift. Always remember that.”
― Lauren Kate, Waterfall

“Don’t turn your back on what you love because you’re scared”
― Lauren Kate, Waterfall

“I wouldn’t know what to do if I weren’t next to you. That’s who I am.”

“You can’t rely on someone else to define you. Especially not me.”
― Lauren Kate, Waterfall

“She could argue with the wall in China and win.”
― Lauren Kate, Teardrop

“Of course. I should have realized. You’re so brave, Eureka. How do you handle it?”

“I don’t handle it, that’s how.”
― Lauren Kate, Teardrop

“who can know the ending until the last word has been written? Everything might change with the last word.”
― Lauren Kate

“Suffering is wisdom’s schoolteacher”
― Lauren Kate, Teardrop

“Eureka!" Mungo yelled. It was a word that wasn't actually a word but which he'd mathematically proved to exist in a parallel realm and he quite liked the sound of it when it came to needing something to yell in moments of cerebral triumph.”
― Jeffery Russell, The Dungeoneers

“Don’t make the same mistakes I did. Learn from mine and make your own and tell your children what you did wrong so they can do even better than you. Don’t turn your back on what you love because you’re scared”
― Lauren Kate, Waterfall

“Don’t cry. Carry what you love about me with you; leave the pain behind.”
― Lauren Kate

“-how do you handle it?
-i don’t handle it, that’s how.”
― Lauren Kate, Teardrop

“She didn’t know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.”
― Lauren Kate, Waterfall

“The inventors of tools enhance civilization,
but the author of ideas enables them to invent.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Curiosity is what powers discovery.”
― Steven Magee

“Follow the clues of investigation to breakthrough.”
― Steven Magee

“The fruits of discovery are awaiting the picker.”
― Steven Magee

“You can be a part of history or you can join the crowd.”
― Steven Magee

“Out of failure came success!”
― Steven Magee

“Before, he had not realized what he actually wanted. Until today, when he saw how Cheng Yujin bade him farewell so easily, and how she began to talk happily about her and her future husband, Cheng Yuanjing finally understood what kind of answer he actually wanted to hear.

He was not her uncle, nor was she his niece. What he wanted was for Cheng Yujin to see him as a man. He wanted her to give him an embroidery, make him pastries, and came to see him — as a man.

Cheng Yuanjing had witnessed how Cheng Yujin very attentively cared for other men. Truly tasteless. Lin Qingyuan’s martial and literary skills weren’t as good as him. Her cousin brother was nothing more than a half-grown child. Why did Cheng Yujin so obsessed with them? Upon this inexplicable feeling, he deliberately revealed his identity. Later, Cheng Yujin’s attitude towards him indeed changed. Unfortunately, she still didn’t see him as a man.

Since she knew his identity, Cheng Yujin always regarded him as a symbol, a tool that could promote her future husband and son’s position. Sometimes Cheng Yuanjing wanted to knock Cheng Yujin’s head and pried it open to have a look. Since she wanted to marry a wealthy and powerful husband, how could she put her sight on Xu Zhixian and Lin Qingyuan? As a crown prince, he had no shortage of money, property, power, and status. Moreover, he also currently occupied the identity of the Cheng family’s ninth son, which enabled her to get closer with him easily. Such conveniences, such good conditions, yet Cheng Yujin didn’t use it and still dared to talk about her future husband in front of him.

For Cheng Yuanjing, Cheng Yujin was an oddity, truly the only one. The more he got closer to her, the more joyful and possessive Cheng Yuanjing became, and the more he couldn’t bear to hear about another man from her mouth.”
― Jiu Yue Liu Huo, Greetings Ninth Uncle 九叔万福

“Research is about making many connections that lead to discovery.”
― Steven Magee

“The night has so much to offer those who live in their he[art].”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts