Research And Development Prints

"Listen, Dobson, your inscrutable smile may work in Research & Development, but it doesn't cut here in sales!"

Research, lawyers, development.

R and D for a Pharmaceutical company

Inventing Time Travel

"R&D really created a miracle drug this time...at least it's been miraculous for our bottom line!"

"Unsticky notes test #17 success!"

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

"Whoa! Back up a second... 'R & D' stands for 'Research & Development?' We always thought it meant 'Rip-off & Distribute!'"

"Tell our 'movers and shakers', to lighten up a bit."

"My discovery may not win a Nobel prize, Edmund. . . but the world can always use a better tasting toothpaste!"

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

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

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?"

'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!"

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

Molecular Biology and Cosmology buildings

Postgraduates A group of posts on their way to class.

"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."

"Where's the business end of this thing?"