Flash of genius

Inspiration refers to a sudden ( clever ) idea. This refers to a spontaneous inspiration, as a special form of idea generation.

1819 wrote Joseph Gorres in Teutschland and the Revolution " [ ... ] Dazs in such transition times flashes of twitching throughout the whole company go [ ... ] "

For household word in German the brainstorm by Wilhelm Busch was. 1883 caricatured these in Baldwin baa-lamb. The poet prevented " a good man who was called baa-lamb And Schreiber was ". In the second chapter there are the verses:

Much older, however, the Greek exclamation Eureka, which means as much as I did ( found).