Intellectual Admirer Gifts

Wilhelm Dilthey

"Hey, it's not all fire and brimstone anymore—one of our nine circles is even smoke-free."

Mensa Does Improv

"There's nothing magical about if, actually I just have a knack for this sort of thing."

Henry Fox Talbot

Lumiere brothers caricature

'Here comes Mr. 'Smarter-then-you'.'

"They called me Dumbo. A memoir of redemption."

Magician Playing Golf.

Leonardo's first drawing

How does it feel to always be the smartest guy in the room, Dr. Kapuchnik? Usually, it feels pretty good. In this particular case, it feels like I'm cheating.

'Even if you do, never admit that you know everything.'

Candle Moment

George Santayana

'Great invention, Rex! What are you going to call it?'

"I hate to be a downer, but, statistically, people are more likely to die of heart disease than by getting

She's good, but Mom's better.

Cakeless.

Forrest Gander

John Banville

"If it isn't E mc2!"

E=mc2 on mountaintop.

Scale indicates the value of books.

'Wow. It's about time a guy noticed me for my brain!'

For the War Inventions Board. The Armoured Bayonet-curler for the Spoiling the Temper of the Enemy's Steel

Einstein's most embarrassing moment

"I didn't it, I read it, so guess who just graduated cum laude from Dinsdale High?"

"And this is my great-uncle Harold...he was a famous escape artist!"

Benjamin Franklin

"Remember the marine biologist? Now, that was brain food."

'I've invented food, and I've invented shelter -- two out of three isn't so bad!'

A man climbs a tree to try to blow out the sun.

"Could you tell me where I am? Not geographically - but in an existentialist way."

Oxford tour guides

Zen Buddhist Diary