Theoretical Thinker Pillows

Word problems in math class.

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

Professor Isaac goes off on another tangent.

"Hey everybody - we've discovered the Higgs boson! It was hidden under this big pile of equations all this time."

'Once and for all I want to know what I'm paying for. When the electric company tells me whether light is a wave or a particle, I'll write my check.'

At the space-time institute.

"The problem is: reasonable men may differ on what the hell reason is!"

Science And Society 1923

"I've looked at the work of Einstein and Hawking on 'time'. Dad, but they don't mention any explanation for the 'dog year'..."

The Big Bag Theory

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

Infinity Ahead.

'If you have 100,000 tonnes of CO2 waste to bury, how big will the hole be?'

'Does the 'What goes up, must come down' theory apply to heaven?'

'I'm dubious. Neutrinos may be bigger than we thought, but they're not that big.'

'I hope 'intelligent design' isn't added in schools because it would mean more homework.'

"Being a post-doc for thirty years can really screw up your life."

Math Dreams

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

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

"Finally, after years of work, irrefutable proof that I'm a nerd."

'I pledge allegiance to the atom, and to the periodic table on which it stands, many particles indivisible, with orbitals and electrons for all.'

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

Thomas Mann.

What's normal?

Raincloud Umbrella

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

Sigmund Freud.

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

"If you can’t beat ’em, roll around in their decaying carcass."

"Mainstream? Who's to say what's mainstream?"

"...I don't believe in the past or the future. I don't even believe in right now. Everyone remembers the past differently. Everyone imagines the future differently. Everyone even disagrees about what's happening right now. So who's to say tomorrow what you and I did tonight?"

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

Innovation & Calculation

'I don't like Gerald as a person, but I like him as a concept.'