Intellectual Explorer Gifts

'We like to bring together people from radically different fields and wait for the friction to produce heat, light and magic. Sometimes it takes a while.'

"Daddy works in a magical, faraway land called Academia."

Gone Lecturin'

Feed me

"Any intellectual property yet, honey?"

'I like Kant.' '...But he's so negative!'

'It's his ambition to have an answer for everything.'

Typical Brain Versus Einstein's Brain

Entropy.

Immanuel Kant

Print media strikes back.

'At this point, I'm taking it one paradigm at a time.'

A person reading an advanced book, standing on the pile of other books that he's had to read in order to become knowledgable enough to reach/read it.

"Do you have 'Intelligence for Idiots'?"

Eureka

Joe's Bar: Not Responsible For Lost or Stolen Intellectual Property.

'Since you conduct only thought experiments, we were hoping you would, from time to time, come up with some thought results.'

'Let's see if we could put a spin on it and get the public interested.'

John Stuart Mill

Copyright, Intellectual Property and the Internet.

Freedom of information guarded by sharks and barbed wire.

"If you ask me, we're all the problem."

'...But enough about me - what are your philosophical underpinnings?'

"There's gotta be something profound in here...."

David Hume

'What I especially like about being a philosopher-scientist is that I don't have to get my hands dirty.'

"His work hovers between neo-realism, post-modernism and crap."

'Of course this scribble doesn't make any sense. Why do you think the critics call it an intellectual masterpiece?'

Bertrand Russell

'Your uncle donated his brain to Harvard and, unfortunately, they used it to figure out a way to get the rest of his money.'

Book Shop with Sections Named 'Something, Somethingness, Nothing, and Nothingness'.

'I used to be a gentleman and a scholar, but there was no money in it.'

A peasant carries a brain.

'...and that is my philosophy.'

Man sees door 'Department of Philosophy In AndOr Out'.