Scientist joke
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[edit] Summary
Scientist jokes, are a kind of professional humor. Often they are in-jokes, ie - they tend to circulate within the scientific community itself, rather than be told by outsiders.
[edit] Examples
- A physicist, a mathematician, and an engineer are sitting around and one of them says "It says here that Professor X has come up with a new theorem that all odd numbers greater than 2 are prime". Each person present thinks to himself:
- MATHEMATICIAN: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not-prime. Theorem disproved!
- MATHEMATICIAN (alternate): 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, the rest follows by Mathematical induction.
- PHYSICIST: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not-prime - oops, experimental error!
- ENGINEER: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is approximately prime, 11 is prime, 13 is prime ...
- MECHANICAL ENGINEER: 3 is prime, 4 is prime, 5 is prime, 6 is prime...
- COMPUTER ENGINEER: 3 is prime, 3 is prime, 3 is prime, 3 is prime ...
- A physicist, a biologist, and a mathematician are walking past an empty, abandoned house. They see two people go into the house, and then sometime later three people emerge. The physicist says, "That's impossible!", the biologist says, "They must have reproduced." and the mathematician says "If someone else went in there that house would be empty again."
- An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are shown a pasture with a black sheep in it. The physicist says all sheep are black. The engineer says that one sheep is black. The mathematician says that there exists a sheep which has at least one side that is black.
- Why can't you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber? Because you can't cross a vector with a scalar.
- Some scientist jokes involve pick-up lines, and are often associated with scientists and engineers. [1] [2] [3]
