Scientists may have sophisticated laboratories,But never forget ‘eureka’ was inspired in a bathtub.

Eureka! – I have found it!

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’

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...

We tend to think of imagination and foresight like we are prone to think of life (sometimes) — as an inscrutable flash of something from the outside that magically takes us over some large boundary...

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...

When you claim to be what you’re not, you’re deliberately killing opportunities, because those who would have help will shun you, thinking that you had it all already.

high” itself.

I heard sad choirs in my mind. There was nothing left of Rachel in the world. He cherished what he’d shown me, and now it was gone. Eureka.