Atom Aficionado Gifts

'I pledge allegiance to the atom, and to the periodic table on which it stands, many particles indivisible, with orbitals and electrons for all.'

Nuclear Confusion

'Hot enough for ya?'

Atoms Coach

The mysterious world of ligand substitution

James Chadwick

'What's the matter with your cyclotron?'

Sir Earnest Rutherford splits the opium.

The loneliness of the particle physicist...'Everyone's interested in things that are much, much larger.'

Greatly enlarged view of newly discovered particle.

"Not only pharmaceuticals - we're also finding all sorts of industrial chemicals here."

'Upon entering the rain forest...' 'Thousands of unknown species, and we can fool around with the genes of every one of them.'

"You have to believe what you're doing will lead to something valuable, even though it probably won't."

"Waiter, there's a weapon of mass destruction in my soup!"

Thank you for not doing research that has already been done.

Man at penthouse party walks out onto terrace and is startled to see the Earth, instead of the moon, shining in the sky.

Sexual chemistry set

On Aug. 3, 1992, the Moon rose over the horizon wearing heavy eye-liner and mohawk. Fortunately it was just a phase.

Welcome to the moon cafe and gift shop...

"Nobody's perfect, but we're working on it."

Graduation Speech.

'How about a toast to my breakthrough?!'

"God, I HATE this planet..!"

"Papi, will you play build-a-model-rocket-so-we-can-calculate-acceleration-rates-and-thrust-levels-for-maximum-payload with me? Please?!"

'Look! There's a Zyzzkzkk!'

"Wow! You do have a triple A membership!"

"Do you realize that you and I have it in our power to cause quite a brouhaha?'

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

Space shuttle helping to unlock the secrets of the universe.

I think he knows something that we don't know about the uranium molecule.

'Well, at least it has bubbles.'

'Maybe we have the wrong subject for this brain mapping project.'

"I understand the allure of religion. It offers hope in a world that's often cruel and unfair. But religion's promises have been consistently proven false. Science, on the other hand, has actually delivered the things that improve human life...."

Dept of Probability: Maybe, Possibly, Perhaps.

"Lord, thank you for guiding me through the whole 'evolution by natural selection' thing."