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.'

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

Intelligent people laugh too!

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!'

Talent, pluck, or plain dumb luck?

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

Greatly enlarged view of newly discovered particle.

'NASA is never going to believe this!'

'You are here' sign on desert island.

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.'

'Curiosity'

At last he had found the Regulatory Guidelines.

Nun reading 'Halo' magazine

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

"I thought it was a breakthrough, but it was only a misplace decimal."

'The beauty of this is that it is only of theoretical importance, and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever.'

"...I suggest we call it Greenspanium"