Intellectual Adventurer Gifts

Think Tank

'I need to borrow your Ph.D. for a half hour tomorrow. I have a major problem to solve.'

Medieval Patent Office

Mind Your Valuable Grey Matter

Lost and Profound.

'He had a forune in intellectual property, and yes, he DID take it with him.'

"My doctoral thesis looks like a fake? Scandalous! I'll have a word with the bloke I bought it from!"

'I didn't know secular humanists HAD missionaries!'

Thomas Aquinas

Philosophy Department: You are here but why are you here?

The Walking TED Talk.

Throwing away your brain

E=mc2.

Jean Paul Sartre.

Questionmark Hits Man on the Head

'Thoreau, doing research on chapter 7'

'This course in philosophy is not designed to teach you how to make a living. I will be teaching you how to make a life.'

Cogito, ergo sum.

'Now that they've cracked Fermat's Last Theorem, I don't know what to do with myself all day.'

"The typical immigrant story. A large family, we leave Vietnam, travel from place to place, finally open a small store. Scholarship to M.I.T. I'm a nuclear physicist."

"It's nobody's fault but mine, Ted. I'm the one who decided to follow my heart rather than my head, and look what it got me: happiness beyond my wildest dreams, and not a CLUE how to deal with it!"

'I've been thinking a lot about what you said yesterday - but, I guess I say that about everything everyone says, everyday.'

Head full of Books.

H. J. Eysenck

The Goethe Life.

"I'd let you in, but I'm not sure I'm all here today"

"What do you mean 'theoretically'? Everything we do is theoretical."

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

Super Student

"I'll be back. And then maybe we can chat about ideas like existentialism."

"Yes, you also invent wheel, but me invent PATENT!"

Think Tank: Not responsible for lost or stolen intellectual property.

Brains Prohibited sign on door to church

"Always with the cancer cures, this one."

"Excuse me, Officer. I'm an academic. Where am I?"