Theory Development Gifts

'Look, fire is fire - Why try to develop theories about it?'

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

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

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

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.

"I bet you're curious about what's going on in the R&D Department."

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!'

Sigmund Freud.

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

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

Sign: 'Welcome to Fernbanks. Beneath our quaint Norman Rockwell-ish exterior beats a big-box chain store heart, ready to sell out at the drop of a hat.'

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

"Bonk!"

"Must be another paradigm shift."

"Quick! The ideas are hatching!"

A Freudian slip...

Women's sportswear - Sale on paradigm shifts.

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

"Mine's bigger than yours."

Einstein's Theory of Relativity For Dummies

"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."

Complexity Made Simple.

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

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

Engineer on the move.

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

"Lucky Guess."

Theory A Day Calendar.

Max Weber

Chaos Theory Lecture - Upstairs and ask again.

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