Theorizing Gifts

'He's always looking for an argument!'

"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.

"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."

'Einstein's blackboard as he left it'

"Bonk!"

"Must be another paradigm shift."

A Freudian slip...

Einstein's Theory of Relativity For Dummies

"Mine's bigger than yours."

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

Women's sportswear - Sale on paradigm shifts.

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

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

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

Complexity Made Simple.

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

Darwin first tested his theory in a letter to a magazine ('Lookalike' letter points to similarity between man and ape.)

Max Weber

"Lucky Guess."

Theory A Day Calendar.

Chaos Theory Lecture - Upstairs and ask again.

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

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

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