Young Physicist Gifts

'What goes up, must come down!' 'Not if you give it enough thrust, to send it flying forever across the face of the universe.'

'The creative process works best with a relaxed brain, so I'm letting my mind wander to let a solution drift in.'

"Up the hill to fetch a pail of water" -- Are you sure that's how hydrodynamics works?

'Does this have anything to do with Einstein's theory of relativity?'

"According to mom the answers are all in this book!" "Too bad there's no pictures at which to look!"

'So...you THINK you have what it takes to be a scientist...?'

"If a third grader knows the answer, how much of a problem can it really be?"

'When I grow up, I'm either going to be an authority figure or an unimpeachable source.'

"I'll bet all of Albert Einstein's teachers felt like idiots for giving him bad grades too."

"I'm starting him off with a little rope theory."

'Tastes like cherry kool-aid, what's it do?'

(When I'm good I'm very very good, but when I'm bad I'm... Well….) (Horrid?)

"I feel I've outgrown this facility, Mrs. Thompson. Could we see what else is around?"

"Could I ask just one question?"

Bless me father, for I have sinned...my brother did it.'

'Son, it's time we had that little talk about ornithology and entomology.'

Four children playing the flute.

"You know what happens when you make good grades? They send you to another school called college."

Fluffy explains her string theory.

Grade 2 Cellist

Drummer

"If wisdom comes with age, what are we doing here at eight and a half?"

'A Great Big Bang. An I-Can-Read Cosmology Book'

'Before we start, I'd like legal representation.'

"Police? My son and his friends were playing, building a moon rocket. . . I believe that they actually blasted off!"

'Dad, when do I stop being a wholly owned subsidy of you and Mom?'

'I want to chuck all the spelling and math and just get back to playing with blocks.'

Busking, "Stop worrying your father for money."

Philosopher trading cards.

'After you grade my report, may I have my intellectual property back?'

'Wow! School's only been out for ten minutes, and I've already forgotten everything I learned.'

I think he knows something that we don't know about the uranium molecule.

"Finally...school starts next week."

'It was bound to happen - they're beginning to think like binary computers.'

'Tommy's book reports are like no other.'