
The exclamation “Eureka!” (per Wikipedia) is attributed to Archimedes. It is a transliteration of the Greek word heureka, meaning “I have found it!” He reportedly made this spontaneous utterance when stepping into a bath and suddenly he realized that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the body part submerged. Those were “heady” days. In modern times, it is sometimes associated with the sudden urge to vacuum….