Charles Darwin Quotes

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

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.

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.

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked.

It was a real sort of synergistic 'Aha!' moment when I started acting.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.

The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear or feel a ding. And it just feels - it's going to be okay.