Discoveries Pillows

'I've done it! I've found the most basic particle!'

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

'So what if you found it? Whatever it is, it belongs to ME! Now, get off my beach!'

Cave explorer discovers writing on the cave wall that says 'explore and discover'.

"Fire is going to be the new content."

"Oh, puhleeese. No one's going to steal your idea."

'Eureka!'

Invisible man at the patent office.

'The beauty of this is that it is only of theoretical importance, and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever.'

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

Nutty Scientist

"Ya know, 'DUH' can be a very hurtful word."

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

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

"Congratulations, Amruk. You prove they do exist."

Intelligent people laugh too!

On a hot day in 1941, scientists uncovered the only known remains of the elusive nerdosaurus rex,

The star hunters

Wilhelm Rontgen's first attempt at X-rays: shining a bright light through Madame Rontgen.

'It's nothing that a few stem cells and 75 years of research can't fix.'

'What's most depressing is the realization that everything we believe will be disproved in a few years.'

"I don't think you can call two ants a 'bug safari'."

'Let's call him lucky!'

'Well, well - this should create a nice little wave of panic and hysteria.'

"I'd call that 'A victory for science.'

"I guess one of the bunnies was a boy after all!"

Talent, pluck, or plain dumb luck?

"It says here that study claims chimps and humans are 96% the same. What's your thoughts Derek?"

"Sadie, I just heard they discovered lots of ancient cities buried hundreds of years ago in the jungles of Cambodia. They've each got weird geometric patterns outlining what may have been gardens. But no one really knows what they were used for. I guess what I'm asking you is... what were they used for? Y'know, since you were there to see them in their prime. They were used for ritual sacrifices of dullards. For educational purposes, I shall now perform one."

Long before Newton, Yampoo discovers gravity, unfortunately the Liazo Tribe doesn't have a written alphabet.

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

'Put that down your fool! It's a bone of contention.'

"I don't know. He just said he had discovered something and we had to come over and see it."

'This changes everything -- I found a loophole in the genetic code!'

'We made something greater than sliced bread, we built a better mousetrap...are we resting on our laurels?'