Scientific Pioneers Mugs

Crawford W Long

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

"Gosh, I can't believe it's been over 25 years since our company was dragged, kicking and screaming, into the digital age!"

Are you the guy who ate my brother?

"I'm studying the effects of prolonged radiation exposure on a panzerotti."

'It's better than we expected. Now the sheep produce wool in the winter and cotton in the summer.'

"I don't know. He just said he had discovered something and we had to come over and see it."

'Another invention? -- You are SUCH a geek!'

"Listen, the first pterodactyl of spring."

Man climbing a dna 'ladder'.

Pasteur and those who came before him and failed.

'And that's how we discovered curly genes, or, as Dr. Crick insists on calling them, 'DNA'.'

'It hasn't been a complete failure - we've learned volumes about falling.'

"Sadie, they found a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. That makes way over 1,000 planets we've discovered in my lifetime." "It must be exciting for you, discovering there are 1,000 worlds full of people who can't possibly know what a doofus you are." "...Unless they've got telescopes." "It is exciting. Now I know how you must've felt when Oog the Caveman discovered Venus." "I see you're bringing what passes for your 'A-game' today."

Life Discovered on Mars

Only in the newspapers.

Pig heart donation saves human life

'Him?.. Oh, he's the guy who discovered fire.'

'I don't know what it is. It showed up right after I invented agriculture.'

Wagon

God: 'Man has dominion over fish...beasts...and germs have dominion over man.'

Chelsea flower show sewage

"I see our neighbors are moving south!"

For centuries we have stared down at them in awe, but with this new invention, we will finally be able to harness the awesome power of walking.

Rocket

"Thanks to our wonderful research team we can now offer you gender choice at birth and puberty."

Spaceman

'Just what we need - mass transit.'

"My paper will revolutionise our perception of core scientific principles..."

What's the first thing you remember? Why do you ask? Because it'll help the cosmologists. Come again? Cosmologists have discovered a lot about the universe. In 1990, they discovered cosmic microwaves are "black body radiation." What that means is, they discovered the microwave radiation that fills the universe conforms exactly to a pattern known as a "black body spectrum" that was predicted by models of the big bang. English!!! They proved the big bang happened. But one of the big questions cosm

"Yeah...I don't think this country's ready to elect a single woman as its president."

"Me not know why, but him cool now."

"C'est nouveau, c'est suisse!"

'Please tell me that wasn't a discouraging word I heard?'

"Remember - every new idea requires a leap in the dark."