Scientific Discovery Mugs

'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.'

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

Intelligent people laugh too!

"You have to believe what you're doing will lead to something valuable, even though it probably won't."

The star hunters

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

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

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

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

Talent, pluck, or plain dumb luck?

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

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

'Hey - It says here, we're related!'