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The Birth of Philosophical Thought Experiments.

Uncle demonstrating chemical experiments to children

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

Wilhelm Rontgen's first attempt at X-rays: shining a bright light through Madame Rontgen.

'Let's agree to dispense with the rules of nomenclature and call it compound X.'

WANTED Dead or Alive - Schrodinger's Cat.

Rodin's Thinker.

Schrödinger and his cat

"Well, he looks alive as of 10 minutes ago, but the stream is frozen."

'All cats have four legs. I have four legs. Therefore, I am a cat.'

'Well, well - this should create a nice little wave of panic and hysteria.'

'Think, son! What was that formula you fed that tree?!'

'Isn't that a little extreme? - Cloning yourself just so you can use the carpool lane?'

Plasma Ball

It's an experiment.

'What'll I do with the nuclear wastes?'

"Essentially Wilkins proves things and Brenner disproves them."

Prison for people who lack imagination.

An angry Scientist has discovered his two Lab' mice are using a GPS to find their way through a maze to some cheese.

'Okay I admit it - we probably do need a rocket scientist.'

Scientists building a tower

'And this is scraps.'

'You knew I was a mad scientist when you married me!'

Undercover Biophysicists

"Say, do you have time between all that DNA research to invent a non-smelly sock."

"Galileo, I've had about enough of all your gravity experiments!"

"It's not safe to keep meeting like this."

Plasma Ball

'I'm inventing an acid that eats through anything.'

'Here's one I made earlier.'

"But I'm conducting an experiment: will the twentieth cookie taste as good as the first?"

'I don't really analyse dreams. I analyse why you think your dreams are worth analysing.'

"I'm not 'just sitting here' — my mind is all over the place."

'I thoguht they only tested drugs on guinea pigs.'

"How a cartoonist's mind works #3 in a series" "Cartoons you think of during the day and draw" "Cartoons you think of in the middle of the night and forget"