Now I thought that it was because I have this totally compelling helmet crusade, right, this epiphany of Tom's.

He later stated that he experienced no epiphany, but that he simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

But my major epiphany came in June 2005 when we launched a blog called IranScan 1384 about the Iranian presidential election (the one where President Ahmadinejad was elected to everyone's surprise).

And what Gruber found was that Darwin had the full theory of natural selection for months and months and months before he had his alleged epiphany, reading Malthus in October of 1838.

And it's a sort of a working computer. And when I built this computer, I had a moment of what is it called? the epiphany where I realized that the computer's just so fast.

More positively, restoring truth would counter the traditional Chinese instinct to blame all disasters on external forces, and might lead to a spiritual epiphany for a people struggling to find value in the emerging new China.

Having reached the epiphany that financial restructuring must be avoided at all costs, the governments of the world have in turn cast a huge safety net over banks (and whole countries in Eastern Europe), woven from taxpayer dollars.

Here you're looking at some oil fields in California, some of the biggest oil fields. And again, I started to think that there was another epiphany that the whole world I was living in was a result of having plentiful oil.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity between expertise and creativity between bias and openness between experience and epiphany between ambition and passion and between arrogance and conviction in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

And the third thing about intelligence is, it's distinct. I'm doing a new book at the moment called Epiphany, which is based on a series of interviews with people about how they discovered their talent. I'm fascinated by how people got to be there.

My own epiphany as a conservationist came in 1953, while a Harvard graduate student, searching for rare ants found in the mountain forests of Cuba, ants that shine in the sunlight metallic green or metallic blue, according to species, and one species, I discovered, metallic gold.

I was doing my taxes the other day, and I got to the point where I was listing all of the donations I gave, and I had an epiphany, it was I came to my check to the Seva Foundation and I noticed that I thought, boy, my friend Larry Brilliant would really be happy that I gave money to Seva.