Eureka Moment Quotes

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

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

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no sense, you think, 'I hate this job.' Then ten minutes later you think, 'Well, now, maybe I'll try this or I'll try that.' You do it because you know there will be an 'a-ha!' day.

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

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Inspiration comes and goes when it pleases. It's independent of our desires, doesn't respond well to force, and refuses to be controlled.

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

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock.

Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

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.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Inspiration is a force not to be wrestled with. You can try, but it will slip under the cracks every time.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

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.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

When I wake up, if I can't figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it's there immediately. I don't know if it's the subconscious mind working, but it just happens.

A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.