Science Thinker Gifts

In the middle ages: 'I believe earth is the center of the universe.'...Today:' I Know I'm the center of the universe.'

"I think you made your mistake right at the beginning!"

'I ask you - does this potato look like intellectual property to you?'

'If it only catches on...math without numbers.'

'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.'

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

"It's no my fault I got a D. The system is broken."

'Thanks to the internet it is now possible to be extremely well-informed and completely wrong at the same time!'

Sigmund Freud.

'I think your father's had one of his big ideas...'

"Space is curved and time is relative? Yeah, OK...I'm calling you a cab right now, buddy."

"I never subscribed to Hobbes' state of nature theory until the night we left the kids without a sitter."

"Bonk!"

"Stargazing sure is less painful at night."

'Yeah, I don't have trouble remembering my times tables, but I stink at algebra...'

"Must be another paradigm shift."

"Of course you can't put your finger on it. It's a hypothetical particle."

"Scientists confirmed today that everything we know about the structure of the universe is wrongedy-wrong-wrong."

Joe's Bar: Not Responsible For Lost or Stolen Intellectual Property.

'A geneticist laid bare my genetic blueprint, and I feel violated.'

'Do I believe in evolution? - Well, I suppose we should get it over with.'

"How on earth do you get this blasted box to open...?"

"So I bought this doohickey that is very good with chaos."

'So much for Newton. Now, as for Einstein...'

"These feelings of yours aren't unusual - in fact, several of them have Web sites."

Auguste Comte

'...working for that Professor Schr?dinger didn't help.'

Dept. of Mathematics and Frustration.

"Genetic engineering has made us disease resistant."

The Big Idea vs The Small Change

'Sorry, Professor Kleinzweck -- your 'Chaos Theory' program just crashed.'

'Lately, I've been thinking a lot about evolution. My theory is that it all points to 'survival of the fattest'.'

"Actually, that old axiom was based on faulty mathematics! I discovered that when you correct this ration, two wrongs DO make a right!"

"Archaeologists discovered several enormous ancient cities buried under the jungles of Cambodia. That means the Khmer civilization was the largest empire on Earth from the 9th to the 12th centuries. That changes everything about our conception of the Middle Ages. What was your conception of the Middle Ages? Well... it was... well, knights, maidens, dragons... mostly dragons. And elves."