Eureka
interjection
A word said when someone finds or understands something.
I've been working on this math problem for hours, and then eureka! I found the solution.
Often appears as...
- eureka moment
- eureka effect
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A city in the state of California in United States.
Eureka is a historic seaport city in California.
Often appears as...
- city of eureka
- eureka california
interjection
A word said when someone finds or understands something.
I've been working on this math problem for hours, and then eureka! I found the solution.
Often appears as...
- eureka moment
- eureka effect
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A city in the state of California in United States.
Eureka is a historic seaport city in California.
Often appears as...
- city of eureka
- eureka california
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Victory Exclamation
Use 'eureka' to express a successful discovery or a sudden insight after much effort.
After checking the code for days, eureka! The bug was fixed.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Origin
'Eureka' has Greek roots, famously used by Archimedes when discovering water displacement.
Just like Archimedes, I shouted 'eureka' when I solved the puzzle.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Usage
It's informal, suitable for casual conversation rather than formal or academic writing.
I was looking for my keys and then, eureka! They were in my jacket pocket.
Pro Tip 1/3Victory Exclamation
Use 'eureka' to express a successful discovery or a sudden insight after much effort.
After checking the code for days, eureka! The bug was fixed.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Origin
'Eureka' has Greek roots, famously used by Archimedes when discovering water displacement.
Just like Archimedes, I shouted 'eureka' when I solved the puzzle.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Usage
It's informal, suitable for casual conversation rather than formal or academic writing.
I was looking for my keys and then, eureka! They were in my jacket pocket.
Pro Tip 1/3Victory Exclamation
Use 'eureka' to express a successful discovery or a sudden insight after much effort.
After checking the code for days, eureka! The bug was fixed.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Origin
'Eureka' has Greek roots, famously used by Archimedes when discovering water displacement.
Just like Archimedes, I shouted 'eureka' when I solved the puzzle.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Usage
It's informal, suitable for casual conversation rather than formal or academic writing.
I was looking for my keys and then, eureka! They were in my jacket pocket.
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Video examples
Where good ideas come...
And he recorded all these conversations and tried to figure out where the most important ideas happened. And when we think about the classic image of the scientist in the lab, we have this image -- you know, they're poring over the microscope, and they see something in the tissue sample, and -- "Eureka!" -- they've got the idea.
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How centuries of sci-fi...
but rather his epic prose poem "Eureka," in which he expounded his own personal view of the cosmographical nature of the universe. In his stories, he would describe in fantastical technical detail machines and contraptions, and nowhere was he more influential in this than in his short story,
Video examples
Chris Anderson: How...
The wheel is turning. Okay, step back a minute. I mean, it's really not news for me to tell you that innovation emerges out of groups. You know, we've heard that this week -- this romantic notion of the lone genius with the "eureka!" moment that changes the world
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The real reason female...
this has us treading water just to stay afloat, while a promotion focus instead has us swimming in the right direction. It's just a matter of how far we can advance. Well, I had my very own eureka moment when it dawned on me that this concept of promotion
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A powerful way to...
And he has his eureka moment. In a flash, he realizes how species could emerge and evolve slowly, through this process of the survival of the fittest. It all comes to him, he writes it all down, every single important element of the theory of evolution,
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Derek Paravicini and...
emerged the most fantastic music, and I think there was just a miracle moment, really, Derek, when you realized that all the sounds you hear in the world out there is something that you can copy on the keyboard. That was the great eureka moment.
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Over-engineering a...
we took a giant step back and looked at the problem from a wider angle and then Eureka what was the problem became a solution what was the bag became a feature now you can see how accurate the sensor is as soon as I attach the wheel
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Thomas P. Campbell:...
What is it? How is it made? Why was it made? How is it used? And these were important lessons to me when I subsequently became a professional art historian. My kind of eureka moment came a few years later,
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How Finding Blue Whale...
They're considered unproductive because they're warm. This was my eureka moment. Not everyone can say that their careers started with a pile of. But I'm pretty pleased to be able to do that.
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Weaving narratives in...
what is it how is it made why was it made how is it used and these are important lessons to me it when i substitute storian my kind of eureka moment came a few years later when i was
Video examples
Where good ideas come...
And he recorded all these conversations and tried to figure out where the most important ideas happened. And when we think about the classic image of the scientist in the lab, we have this image -- you know, they're poring over the microscope, and they see something in the tissue sample, and -- "Eureka!" -- they've got the idea.
Video examples
How centuries of sci-fi...
but rather his epic prose poem "Eureka," in which he expounded his own personal view of the cosmographical nature of the universe. In his stories, he would describe in fantastical technical detail machines and contraptions, and nowhere was he more influential in this than in his short story,
Video examples
Chris Anderson: How...
The wheel is turning. Okay, step back a minute. I mean, it's really not news for me to tell you that innovation emerges out of groups. You know, we've heard that this week -- this romantic notion of the lone genius with the "eureka!" moment that changes the world
Video examples
The real reason female...
this has us treading water just to stay afloat, while a promotion focus instead has us swimming in the right direction. It's just a matter of how far we can advance. Well, I had my very own eureka moment when it dawned on me that this concept of promotion
Video examples
A powerful way to...
And he has his eureka moment. In a flash, he realizes how species could emerge and evolve slowly, through this process of the survival of the fittest. It all comes to him, he writes it all down, every single important element of the theory of evolution,
Video examples
Derek Paravicini and...
emerged the most fantastic music, and I think there was just a miracle moment, really, Derek, when you realized that all the sounds you hear in the world out there is something that you can copy on the keyboard. That was the great eureka moment.
Video examples
Over-engineering a...
we took a giant step back and looked at the problem from a wider angle and then Eureka what was the problem became a solution what was the bag became a feature now you can see how accurate the sensor is as soon as I attach the wheel
Video examples
Thomas P. Campbell:...
What is it? How is it made? Why was it made? How is it used? And these were important lessons to me when I subsequently became a professional art historian. My kind of eureka moment came a few years later,
Video examples
How Finding Blue Whale...
They're considered unproductive because they're warm. This was my eureka moment. Not everyone can say that their careers started with a pile of. But I'm pretty pleased to be able to do that.
Video examples
Weaving narratives in...
what is it how is it made why was it made how is it used and these are important lessons to me it when i substitute storian my kind of eureka moment came a few years later when i was
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Quote examples
Carl Honore
Canadian Journalist
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.
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Vaclav Smil
Czechoslovakian Scientist
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.
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John Tiffany
English Director
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.
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Antoine Arnault
French Businessman
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.
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Jason Silva
American Director
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.
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Jodie Foster
American Actress
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.
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Roger Penrose
English Physicist
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.
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John Williams
American Composer
There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.
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Anish Kapoor
Indian Artist
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
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Archimedes
Greek Mathematician
Eureka! - I have found it!
Quote examples
Carl Honore
Canadian Journalist
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.
Quote examples
Vaclav Smil
Czechoslovakian Scientist
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.
Quote examples
John Tiffany
English Director
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.
Quote examples
Antoine Arnault
French Businessman
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.
Quote examples
Jason Silva
American Director
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.
Quote examples
Jodie Foster
American Actress
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.
Quote examples
Roger Penrose
English Physicist
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.
Quote examples
John Williams
American Composer
There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.
Quote examples
Anish Kapoor
Indian Artist
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
Quote examples
Archimedes
Greek Mathematician
Eureka! - I have found it!
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