Scientific Discoveries Gifts

"Sometimes I wonder if there's more to life than unlocking the mysteries of the universe."

"I've done it – I've found the most basic particle!"

"Miss Garnet, get me everything we have on spontaneous generation."

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

'I'd like to hear more Eureka's and fewer bwa-ha-ha's around here!'

Greatly enlarged view of newly discovered particle.

"We've made a spectacular breakthrough. . . I think."

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

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

"Mind blown."

"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.'

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

'Some of those youngsters have come up with a terrific new idea - feathers.'

"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."

Professor Wiles grows insufferable.

The star hunters

'It's nothing that a few stem cells and 75 years of research can't fix.'

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

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

"Mom lets me eat my fill of junk food as long as I can pronounce all the chemical ingredients."

'I told you, you were missing a decimal point.'

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

'I'd like to leave my pacemaker to the medical institute, my artificial lung to the research center, my false teeth to the dental clinic, my dacron arteries...'

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

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

"I guess one of the bunnies was a boy after all!"

Talent, pluck, or plain dumb luck?

"I'd call that 'A victory for science.'

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

"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."