Curious Mind Prints

Child with a junior chemistry set in the complaints department.

'Don't tell me this nonsense doesn't violate the code of bioethics.'

Feed me

The Book of 'Everything You Need To Know.'

'Don't call the Nobel Committee just yet: We forgot to calibrate the instruments before the experiment...'

'I understand how I was born; I want to know why.'

Question and answer

'Under strict laboratory conditions, research concludes that, in spite of being watched, pots do eventually boil.'

"Do you have any why-to books?"

Typical Brain Versus Einstein's Brain

"I didn't find out quite what I wanted about the economics of democracy but I did find an interesting article about the mating habits of the Patagonian Fruit Bat."

Entropy.

"And what's the story behind the story?"

A candidate for a job in scientific research being tested for whether she is too impressionable for unbiased independent thinking.

A lecture on the subject of questioning authority...

'I was just rubbing sticks together for fun -- I didn't realize I was doing basic research.'

"Teach yourself what you don't know you don't know."

'How do 'Do not walk on the grass' signs, get there?'

"We're going to start with the birds and the bees and then work our way up to the new reproductive technologies."

"If I ever go to Japan, I'm sure the pilot will be able to find it, so why do I have to know where it is?"

"Well, there's another four million dollars down the drain."

'Next time ask, 'what does this button do?' before you push it.'

"Oh wonderful! You just couldn't resist it could you?"

'Looks like these little critters are not asexual after all.'

'I understand how I was born; I want to know why.'

'No matter how carefully I surf the Internet, I always get too much information.'

'Do we need both?'

'Oh, wow, you found my science project ant it works!'

'Sir, is the stuff we learn in this experiment supposed to go into our long or short term memory?'

Little man under a microscope with binoculars.

"What do you mean I answer every question with a question?"

"How come you're always trying to teach me things I don't want to know?"

"Maybe it's not a wrong answer - maybe it's just a different answer."

'If Rome wasn't built in a day, how long did it take?'

"I stand corrected. There ARE such things as stupid questions."