Scientific Discovery Gifts

'Ah ha, just as I expected...BOOM!'

An unknown sub-atomic particle waiting to be discovered.

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

"I've made a discovery about our universe! It turns out you aren't the center of it Tim."

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

"Professor Case, your longevity studies are just awesome."

"How will you feel when we find the final quark?"

"Hey! Where are you guys going?"

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

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

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

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

"I see Jones has reinvented himself again."

Isaac Newton, theoretical physicist, ignores falling apple and contemplates one that might have fallen'

"Hi dad."

"Hey - Newton was right all along. . .!"

'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.'

Intelligent people laugh too!

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

"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

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

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

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

'Let's call him lucky!'

'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...'

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

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

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

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

Talent, pluck, or plain dumb luck?