It's fun to think of great moments in the history of science, particularly the ones that have a memorable anecdote attached to them. In the 3rd century BC, a naked Archimedes ran down a city street, screaming Eureka, because he had discovered, in a flash, how to measure the volume of irregular solids. In the 1600s, a fateful apple bonks Issac Newton on the head, causing him to spit out the Theory of Gravity. In the…