Unexpected Discoveries Gifts

'The natives are wrestlers.'

'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.'

Intelligent people laugh too!

"Congratulations, Amruk. You prove they do exist."

He is familiar with the silent swoop of the evening bat.

"You have to believe what you're doing will lead to something valuable, even though it probably won't."

The star hunters

Wilhelm Rontgen's first attempt at X-rays: shining a bright light through Madame Rontgen.

"Oh, puhleeese. No one's going to steal your idea."

'Let's call him lucky!'

"I guess one of the bunnies was a boy after all!"

Now if we can just figure out how to use this to power that.

Talent, pluck, or plain dumb luck?

"Sadie, I just heard they discovered lots of ancient cities buried hundreds of years ago in the jungles of Cambodia. They've each got weird geometric patterns outlining what may have been gardens. But no one really knows what they were used for. I guess what I'm asking you is... what were they used for? Y'know, since you were there to see them in their prime. They were used for ritual sacrifices of dullards. For educational purposes, I shall now perform one."

Long before Newton, Yampoo discovers gravity, unfortunately the Liazo Tribe doesn't have a written alphabet.

Face it, Bob, we're lost. Welcome to Faceitbobwe'relost pop. 2.

'There goes another one. Galileo, don't you have any idea what makes them do that?'

'Put that down your fool! It's a bone of contention.'

'So what if you found it? Whatever it is, it belongs to ME! Now, get off my beach!'

'This changes everything -- I found a loophole in the genetic code!'

'We made something greater than sliced bread, we built a better mousetrap...are we resting on our laurels?'

'NASA is never going to believe this!'

Greatly enlarged view of newly discovered particle.

Professor Urquat makes his final contribution to the world of science.

Scientist exclaims; 'At last! I have created artifical life!' But the rest of his team are busy watching Big Brother.

'This is quite a thrill. I've never been on electron microscope before.'

'You are here' sign on desert island.

'Curiosity'

At last he had found the Regulatory Guidelines.

Nun reading 'Halo' magazine

"Yes, it's dangerous but, if there is a power there, think what it will mean for HD TVs, cell phones, ipods ... "

'It looks like a beaver.' - News Item: Beaver ancestor lived alongside dinosaurs.

"I've never known a child like him. He's always finding things."

"...I suggest we call it Greenspanium"