Research And Design Gifts

'This is the department of staying ahead of the curve...you want the bureau of thinking outside the box.'

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

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

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

The Department of Really Stupid Ideas: 'Most people think they just appear out of thin air! But the truth is, there's a great deal of very hard work involved!'

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

Copycats

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

'I should not that the cherry and whipped cream were an afterthought created by our graphics dept.'

'C'mon get it straight.'

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

Fear/Knowledge

Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.

"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

"Waiting for the vaccine launch."

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

"Maybe we should cut back on those lawn catalogues."

'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!"

"Of all the buildings I've designed, it's probably the most handsome."

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

Postgraduates A group of posts on their way to class.

Molecular Biology and Cosmology buildings

CLOTHES-HORSES OF THE ART SCENE

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

'Smith, we need more creativity. You have to learn to think outside the box.'

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."