Eureka by Rick Doble

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(Text, design & research by Rick Doble. Photos and images from commons.wikimedia.org except as noted.)

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility …

The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

 Some live 

 for the apple moment: 

 When Isaac Newton 

 saw in a flash 

 that apple and moon 

 were one 

 and the same 

 Pythagoras hearing 

 the harmony 

 of 

 blacksmith's hammers 

 Archimedes 

 taking a bath 

 Kandinsky 

 seeing the world 

 abstractly 

 from a painting upside down 

 Einstein 

 chasing a beam of light 

 The Universe 

 split open 

 for a second 

 to let 

 one small creature 

 SEE