Pharmaceutical Scientist Gifts

"These medicines all taste pretty good - let's approve them."

Researcher to partner: 'We spent 10 million dollars for a pill that melts in your mouth, not in your hand.'

"Discouraging data on the antidepressant."

"Well, the drug's no good, but the side effects are bitchin'."

"We may be close to developing a placebo."

"Of course I respect your work at a leading pharmaceutical company. Little Dristan and Bactine here should be proof of that."

'Perhaps the reason test drug CYM1570268 kills mice, but not people is because mice are different from people.' 'And he'll probably win a Nobel Prize for that theory.'

I see we're sharing the credit - you, for coming up with this remarkable broad-spectrum antibiotic, me, for giving it that distinctive cherry-lime flavor.'

"Eureka! It won't cure anything, but the side effects are terrific!"

"It looks like fecal transplants may do us in."

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

"Ya know, 'DUH' can be a very hurtful word."

The Jeopardy of Progress

'... And some primitive cultures, believed that 'the great ones' modelled us from clay.'

"This is a lovely old song that tells of a young woman who leaves her cottage, and goes off to work. She arrives at her destination, and places some solid NHHS in a flask containing 0.50 atm ofammonia, and attempts to determine the pressures of ammonia and hydrogen sulide when equilibrium is reached."

"My older self travels back just to remind me to put the cap back on this pen?"

"They say it takes 10,000 hours to perfect something- I guess I was a bit hasty throwing that together in 144."

2021

'Dr.Sall Thompson got so excited over the new spring design she took a quantum leap!'

'It's a nice idea. A bit rough around the edges but I'm sure it will evolve given time.'

'What motivated you to become a environmentalist?'

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

Rocket Launch Control Centre Back in 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

"We've made great progress!"

"E=MC² Energy=Milk·Coffee²"

In his younger days Spock was quite the comedian.

Fear/Knowledge

In the future, human thought will enter an age of clarity and purity never before dreamed of.

"Finally, after years of work, irrefutable proof that I'm a nerd."

Typical Brain Versus Einstein's Brain

"It does have a side effect. You'll faint when I tell you how much it will cost to produce."

"We're bringing the arts and sciences together here by giving crayons to mice."

'No Renee, not until you get two degrees, pass a rigorous physical, and beat out thousands of other qualified individuals.'

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

"Waiting for the vaccine launch."