Geochemist Gifts

'We geochemists did very well before there were geophysicists.'

"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."

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."

'Why didn't he take 8 days and finish the job properly?'

Another long day down at the Bureau of Earthquake Prediction.

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

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

"So, the Scharfs have an atoll. Big deal."

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

"Frankly, I can't wait until I evolve into a bird..."

Natural Disasters

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

Grand Canyon. What's so great about the Grand Canyon?...Most of it's missing!

Carbon Dating.

Molecules You Ought to be Aware of.

Interdisciplinary studies.

The Style of Elements

"Babe, I'm gonna leave you... It may take a few eons, but I am definitely gonna leave you..."

Scientists are sexy

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!

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

"I know. Let's wait here until we evolve to an upright position. Then we could reach it."

'According to creation mathematicians, all of Euclid's theories were originally found etched into rocks.'

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

'Sometimes, laughter is the best medicine.'

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

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

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

"Look, Professor - a stegosaurus!"

A 'Falling Rock' and a 'Deer Crossing' zone.

Chemist builds animals instead of molecular models

"Admit it, we're lost."

Genetic modification creating plastic from plant cellulose.