Thermodynamics Thinker Pillows

'Entropy' sculpture crumbles

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

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

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

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

'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!"

Math Dreams

'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."

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

'What's most depressing is the realization that everything we believe will be disproved in a few years.'

"Hello - I'm from the future..."

"Bonk!"

'Yeah, I don't have trouble remembering my times tables, but I stink at algebra...'

"Must be another paradigm shift."

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

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

Entropy.

'A geneticist laid bare my genetic blueprint, and I feel violated.'

"Someday, son, all this will be yours. It'll be under water, but still ..."

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

'Do I believe in evolution? - Well, I suppose we should get it over with.'

A2+B2=C2, 'Are you sure you're not just making this stuff up?'

Science And Society 1923

'...working for that Professor Schr?dinger didn't help.'

Professor Isaac goes off on another tangent.

Capital

Dept. of Mathematics and Frustration.

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

"Actually, that old axiom was based on faulty mathematics! I discovered that when you correct this ration, two wrongs DO make a right!"

'He's always looking for an argument!'

'Sorry, Professor Kleinzweck -- your 'Chaos Theory' program just crashed.'