Future Chemist Gifts

Child with a junior chemistry set in the complaints department.

'Son, you're going to have to do your chemistry homework at school.'

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

"This is a lovely old song that tells of a young woman who leaves her cottage, and goes off to work. She arrives at her destination, and places some solid NHHS in a flask containing 0.50 atm ofammonia, and attempts to determine the pressures of ammonia and hydrogen sulide when equilibrium is reached."

Circa 1928, The Reese's Candy laboratory.

Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.

"It does have a side effect. You'll faint when I tell you how much it will cost to produce."

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

Uncle demonstrating chemical experiments to children

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

'So...you THINK you have what it takes to be a scientist...?'

'We look for a new drug, we find a virus - we look for a new virus, we find a drug...'

"I'm starting him off with a little rope theory."

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

Carbon Dating.

Molecules You Ought to be Aware of.

Interdisciplinary studies.

The Style of Elements

Fusion Lab. Did you tell the boss we need more hydrogen? Yes, I told him we were out of our element.

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

Micro Psychiatry Clinic. You have a full schedule today, Doctor. The helium atom will be here to work on his fear of heights. The white blood cell with a germ phobia and amoeba with separation anxiety are coming in. The DNA molecule will be here about an identity crisis. And here, in the sports car, comes a new patient, a carbon-14 isotope. Ah, looks like he's going through a half-life crisis!

Scientists are sexy

'Sometimes, laughter is the best medicine.'

'What's the big deal about acid rain? Can't we just make alkaline rain to counteract it?'

Gracie's baby toys.

Little Doctor meets Little Geneticists.

Chemist builds animals instead of molecular models

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

''Science moves but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.' Tennyson.'

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

Genetic modification creating plastic from plant cellulose.

'The path to becoming an astronaut is rougher than I thought.'

'Put a tick under 'very toxic'.' (New Orleans Toxic Clean-Up Team).

Scientist admires his structure of a dog

"It started with a simple case of peer-review."