Lover Of Thought Experiments Pillows

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.

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.'

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

Plasma Ball

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

It's an experiment.

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

Prison for people who lack imagination.

"Essentially Wilkins proves things and Brenner disproves them."

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.'

Undercover Biophysicists

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

'And this is scraps.'

Plasma Ball

Scientists building a tower

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

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

"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"

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

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

"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."

'Here's one I made earlier.'

A genetically-modified,hydroponically-grown tomato conducts a taste-test of its own.