People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence--a duty and a duty alone--and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.