Curious Pioneer Prints

October 11, 2009: History is made when 8-year-old Tommy Wurtner becomes the first child to enter space.

Wildlife

"You say it all the time, so I climbed every tree to prove it. You were right, money doesn't grow on trees."

'Teenagers!'

'I know about the birds and the bees. Tell me about the bears and the bulls.'

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

'Sweet! Let's break it open and see what it is!'

'In a nutshell, foods are drugged and drugs are eaten like food.'

Science Museum. Why are you skeptical about the things scientists say? Because they claim the universe is expanding but when I visited my childhood hometown, everything was smaller.

"Your assumption that a one in a million chance event MUST be a miracle shows you drastically underestimate the total number of regularly occurring events."

Schrodinger's Black Box

Computer: 'There are some things it is better not to know.'

"You know the stories about putting a pair of socks into the washing machine and getting out just one of them...Jones, it seems that we found the hideaway of the second socks!"

"When I get to Heaven, will I still have to clean my room?"

Detective and child follow footprints using magnifying glasses.

"Then what happened?"

'I wonder how Curious George fits into all this?'

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" "Nothing. I'm going into stem cell research."

'Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study.'

'See, dear, you can't believe everything you read. It says so right here on the internet!'

Safari tourists surrounded by lions following a 4x4 car crash.

'Can you debunk my essay?'

Plasma Ball

'All I wanted to know is if that word was naughty.'

Alice's interest in photography grew, during her stay in Wonderland.

"If everything is God's will, tell me again why I need to study for exams?"

'I begin to question whether this startup ever had venture capital.'

Young ladies ponder the relationship of a man with a young boy

'You can't win - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but ignorance is no excuse!'

It was her last day so Mary decided to find out something that had bugged her for years: what the button with the skull & crossbones was for.

'It's called a telescope son. It's sort of like a low-tech search engine.'

"Do I need to know this stuff to get into medical school?"

'Hey, it's that peeping Tom again, the one who has no respect for privacy.'

"Yes, I'm sure that going to school isn't the same as eating from the Tree of Knowledge."

'There goes another one. Galileo, don't you have any idea what makes them do that?'