[Ads-l] Eureka/ That's odd (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED

The most exciting phrase to hear in science is "The grant has been approved."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Morris
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 11:03 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Eureka/ That's odd
> 
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Peter Morris <peter_morris_1 at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK>
> Subject:      Eureka/ That's odd
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> There's a quote widely attributed to Isaac Asimov:
> 
> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new = discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ."
> 
> There's currently about 48,000 hits on Google with this attribution, but = no source cited.=20
> 
> A discussion of the phrase on the Quote Investigator website.
> 
> http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/02/eureka-funny/#more-10726
> 
> 
> I have found a somewhat similar quote from 1965. I can't tell from the = snippet view who the author is, though.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/njle8k8
> 
> ... the popular picture of the scientist is of a man who is visited by a = flash of insight and cries, in effect, "Eureka!" Or, more modestly, as a
> = man who notices something others have ignored and mutters "That's odd."  = [cartoon] To be realistic, however, the successful scientist
> often = seizes on ...=20
> 
> From the fragment it appears that the author is disputing the notion.=20
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org