Lab, Laugh, Love: 32 Scientifically Approved Memes for Your Reaction

John Summers • Contributor

Aug 9, 2024 10:00 PM EDT

I would have made a wonderful scientist if I could only do math, understand complex ideas, concentrate for several hours and, in general, just be smarter. This might sound like a joke but I really believe that. I feel like I have a real passion for science, but I lack the actual tools a person needs to be a scientist. It's all nice and well to retain your natural curiosity into your adulthood, which is absolutely one of the requirements for being a scientist, but it's nothing if you cant sit down for extended periods of time, learning all the fundamentals of physics (which is mostly just math) and then have the brain capacity to retain all that information and apply it to real world problems.

On the other hand, I can make a really good omelette (my kid told me that yesterday) and I'm pretty sure most scientists can't. so… I guess I'm better than them huh… crying while buttering up pan