The Curious Questioner Gifts

"If you have to ask, you can't understand the answer."

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

Wildlife

'Thanks to the internet it is now possible to be extremely well-informed and completely wrong at the same time!'

"Your assumption that a one in a million chance event MUST be a miracle shows you drastically underestimate the total number of regularly occurring events."

Science Museum. Why are you skeptical about the things scientists say? Because they claim the universe is expanding but when I visited my childhood hometown, everything was smaller.

Schrodinger's Black Box

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

'In a nutshell, foods are drugged and drugs are eaten like food.'

"You know the stories about putting a pair of socks into the washing machine and getting out just one of them...Jones, it seems that we found the hideaway of the second socks!"

"It's felt to be his most thought provoking work."

"When I get to Heaven, will I still have to clean my room?"

Beyond the known and the unknown.

Do Guns Kill?

"Daddy, why do people pull round pizza from square boxes and cut them into triangles before they eat them?"

'I wonder how Curious George fits into all this?'

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" "Nothing. I'm going into stem cell research."

'Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study.'

'See, dear, you can't believe everything you read. It says so right here on the internet!'

'If it 'tells' the time, why do I have to look at it?'

"If everything is God's will, tell me again why I need to study for exams?"

Idle parts

'Can you debunk my essay?'

Young ladies ponder the relationship of a man with a young boy

Ostrich Curoisities

"When will I be old enough to have an inner child?"

'You can't win - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but ignorance is no excuse!'

Philosophy Test Today. This "Meaning of Life" question -- is that essay or true-false?

'But why do you want to transmute asparagus into cotton?'

"Do I need to know this stuff to get into medical school?"

'It's called a telescope son. It's sort of like a low-tech search engine.'

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

"Yes, I'm sure that going to school isn't the same as eating from the Tree of Knowledge."

Evolution or Creation? A Compromise

Sex Section in the Library