Scientific Dreamer Gifts

'I'm your guardian angel and I think it's time you knew that for the past 37 years you've been barking up the wrong tree.'

"I'm a poor research scientist. I don't need another credit card."

"Not everyone's cut out to be a mad scientist - maybe you're just meant to be a slightly disgruntled lab technician."

'We don't get paid for thought experiments.'

"Sorry boys, we have to turn back! I left the space station lights on."

'My secret ambition is to find a new element, but to tell the truth, I don't know where to look.'

"Sometimes I wonder if it was worth all the trouble you went through to get yourself cloned."

"We can see through the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and into all those distant stars up there in outer space... truly remarkable, huh, girl?"

'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.'

Molecular Biology and Cosmology buildings

Pipe Dream.

"Good Lord! Life on Mars...adorable life on Mars!"

"Hey Pete, why do you think they call it a 'Supermoon?'"

How we imagined A.I. in 1977. . . How it's looking today. . .

"Remember when we used to wonder if there other beings somewhere out there?"

"Ooh look Derek. A shooting star. Quick make a wish"

'Sometimes George likes to pretend he's an astronaut.'

'Never mind that. I think I've just discovered a new planet!'

Sci-Fi Museum. New Exhibit. H.G. Wells War of the Worlds. In 1938, Orson Welles broadcast "War of the Worlds," a radio drama about aliens from Mars invading earth. The radio drama was presented as a series of fake news reports about devastation caused by the invading aliens. Many listeners turned in to the program mid-roadcast and thought the news reports were real. Widespread panic ensued. Wow! Orson Welles caused all that panic with a radio program. Just imagine what he could have don

Schrodinger's Black Box

'So what are you studying, young man?'

'She barely made it out of the atmosphere... next!'

"Siri, who’s the fairest of them all?"

"Looking at you, the moon and beyond, don't you think we could start a blog?"

You must be this tall.

"Is there any way I could get a dashboard instead of a report card?"

"And that little pinpoint of light? That’s our new baby."

"Remember when we kicked him off Mars?"

On Aug. 3, 1992, the Moon rose over the horizon wearing heavy eye-liner and mohawk. Fortunately it was just a phase.

"Isn't the universe wonderful?" "I thought there was supposed to be fireworks."

A man looks up at the earth

Epic Battles

"But there's no way in hell I could afford Jupiter today."

Imagination Navigation.

Alice in Wonderland-Hare and Hatter putting Dormouse in Teapot