Little Physicist Gifts

'If all children are natural-born scientists, society might be wise to at least quarantine the subset of these scientist-infants who are the atomic weapons specialists, before they kill us with their crazy little lunchbox nukes.'

'The creative process works best with a relaxed brain, so I'm letting my mind wander to let a solution drift in.'

"You say it all the time, so I climbed every tree to prove it. You were right, money doesn't grow on trees."

'Does this have anything to do with Einstein's theory of relativity?'

"I'll bet all of Albert Einstein's teachers felt like idiots for giving him bad grades too."

'What goes up, must come down!' 'Not if you give it enough thrust, to send it flying forever across the face of the universe.'

Playdough's The Republic

October 11, 2009: History is made when 8-year-old Tommy Wurtner becomes the first child to enter space.

'This test doesn't understand me.'

Scientist admires his structure of a dog

'You're doing a play in kindergarten?'

"Arithmetic gets a lot harder when you run out of fingers and toes."

Fluffy explains her string theory.

I think I can, I think I can ... therefore I think I am...

"I thought your show-and-tell was really brave."

"Mommy, watch, I'm living authentically!"

'You know who's been naughty and who's been nice? -- you're not using DNA evidence, are you?'

Today's lesson, the rainforest.

A young positivist.

I think he knows something that we don't know about the uranium molecule.

'It says here that erosion moves soil from one place to another. I thought that was our job.'

Take a bow!

'Young lady, I'm afraid existential despair is no excuse for not eating your lima beans.'

"In pre-school I was an overachiever. Now, in first grade, math is threatening my reputation."

'I guess you've noticed that most of these trespasses are reruns.'

"Wind's funny. . . It's nothing. . . going very fast."

'I have a math test tomorrow, Sir, and I could use a godsend multiplicationwise.'

"Face it -- you resent me for the exploring in depth a world that you take for granted."

Life on Earth - maths advice.

'We studied the multiplication table in school today -- frankly, I don't believe a word of it.'

'Guess what I'd like to see disappear next.'

'Max really likes those genetic markers.'

Working On Silly String Theory.

'We studied the multiplication table in school today -- frankly, I don't believe a word of it.'

"Trust me, Son, you do not want to 'grow up to be president.' "