Qualitative Research Gifts

The client would prefer fewer open-ended questions.

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

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

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

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

Fear/Knowledge

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

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

'Never mind inspiration. I need background material on atomic physics.'

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Wally Begins research for his thesis entitled "who's a good dog?"

"Waiting for the vaccine launch."

'I pledge allegiance to the atom, and to the periodic table on which it stands, many particles indivisible, with orbitals and electrons for all.'

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

Postgraduates A group of posts on their way to class.

Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Science of Love

Molecular Biology and Cosmology buildings

"Not only pharmaceuticals - we're also finding all sorts of industrial chemicals here."

He may have a PH.D in elementary particle physics, but he's having an awful lot of trouble with the application form.

'How can we believe anything when we can disprove everything?'

'We look for a new drug, we find a virus - we look for a new virus, we find a drug...'

'Dr Hodges, here, is from England and he's been observing us for 14 years. Mr Ferrell, an American, has been here only 3 weeks. Monique Corveu, from Paris, has practically been living with us for about nine years...'

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

Do your research!

"I bet you're curious about what's going on in the R&D Department."

Scientists are sexy

'Upon entering the rain forest...' 'Thousands of unknown species, and we can fool around with the genes of every one of them.'

'Great news, Dear! I've been traded to a think tank in California for a PhD Specializing in the Baltics!'

"Quick! Act like we just developed a drug that they can sell for seven thousand dollars a pill."

'Poor Kleinzweck -- his working hypothesis got laid off.'

Need Supercomputer to finish my PhD, Please Help.

"So, what does everyone think of XX81's suggestion for increased funding into AI research?"

"This just in: According to a recent poll, painkillers have replaced religion as the opiate of the masses."

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