Theoretical Concepts Gifts

John von Neumann, after completing his book. 'Theory of Self-Replicating Automata'.

"If a stock falls in the market, and it had no investors, does it really lose its value?"

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

'Never mind inspiration. I need background material on atomic physics.'

Math Dreams

C'mon, it'll be fun! I'll throw on some stars, pop in a few planets, drum up a life form or two, and this place will be hoppin'! The Big Shebang Theory.

Suzie would later win a Nobel Prize for her Law of Special Social Relativity.

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

Yound Einstein disproves an early theory: 'Aha! A watched pot DOES boil!'

Sigmund Freud.

Einstein develops his theories that time is relative while ordering at a fast food restaurant.

Zenemies.

"Space is curved and time is relative? Yeah, OK...I'm calling you a cab right now, buddy."

"It's just one monkey at one typewriter, but we've given him an infinite need for validation."

"I never subscribed to Hobbes' state of nature theory until the night we left the kids without a sitter."

"Must be another paradigm shift."

Schrödinger and his cat

"Bonk!"

'Einstein's blackboard as he left it'

'What do you mean 'theoretically'? Everything we do is theoretical.'

"Mine's bigger than yours."

Women's sportswear - Sale on paradigm shifts.

"Of course you can't put your finger on it. It's a hypothetical particle."

'Quantum Mechanics is one of the three great pillars supporting our understanding of the natural world.

"Scientists confirmed today that everything we know about the structure of the universe is wrongedy-wrong-wrong."

Lecture on Chaos Theory delayed because the speaker dropped his notes.

Physicists disputing whether the clock moves backwards or forwards according to season change.

Max Weber

'A little squirt like Graubart would theorize that the Universe is contracting!'

Science And Society 1923

"The physicists doubt it, the chemists want to change it, the psychologists are trying to interpret it and the biologists don't care."

'He was working on a theory of entropy, and developed a severe case of it himself.'

Newton's Law and Order.

'So much for Newton. Now, as for Einstein...'

'To be honest, I would have never invented the wheel if not for Urg's ground breaking theoretical work with the circle.'