Reading About Discoveries Pillows

'There goes another one. Galileo, don't you have any idea what makes them do that?'

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

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

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

'It appears he hit an iceberg.' (A LETTUCE)

"Congratulations, Amruk. You prove they do exist."

Intelligent people laugh too!

On a hot day in 1941, scientists uncovered the only known remains of the elusive nerdosaurus rex,

"You have to believe what you're doing will lead to something valuable, even though it probably won't."

The star hunters

'Ah Mr Bond, I haven't been expecting you...'

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

"Oh, puhleeese. No one's going to steal your idea."

"OK, we may not have ways of making you talk, but we do have ways of making your leg twitch uncontrollably."

'What's most depressing is the realization that everything we believe will be disproved in a few years.'

'Let's call him lucky!'

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

Now if we can just figure out how to use this to power that.

Talent, pluck, or plain dumb luck?

"It says here that study claims chimps and humans are 96% the same. What's your thoughts Derek?"

Hitchcock's The Birds

Long before Newton, Yampoo discovers gravity, unfortunately the Liazo Tribe doesn't have a written alphabet.

Cop Shop: Bulk, dried blood, shaved hair, ground teeth, assorted body parts and bone fragments.

"I've run out of invisible ink..."

"Sadie, I just heard they discovered lots of ancient cities buried hundreds of years ago in the jungles of Cambodia. They've each got weird geometric patterns outlining what may have been gardens. But no one really knows what they were used for. I guess what I'm asking you is... what were they used for? Y'know, since you were there to see them in their prime. They were used for ritual sacrifices of dullards. For educational purposes, I shall now perform one."

'Put that down your fool! It's a bone of contention.'

'This changes everything -- I found a loophole in the genetic code!'

'So what if you found it? Whatever it is, it belongs to ME! Now, get off my beach!'

'We made something greater than sliced bread, we built a better mousetrap...are we resting on our laurels?'

Scientist exclaims; 'At last! I have created artifical life!' But the rest of his team are busy watching Big Brother.

Professor Urquat makes his final contribution to the world of science.

Greatly enlarged view of newly discovered particle.

'This is quite a thrill. I've never been on electron microscope before.'

'NASA is never going to believe this!'

'Hey, guys, come over here. I just discovered the telescope.'