False hope Memes

The eternal optimism of the scientifically deluded! Our friend here represents the three types of people in science: the hopeful undergraduate who thinks one experiment will revolutionize everything, the desperate grad student who needs something to work before funding runs out, and the tenured professor who's been saying "just one more test" since 1997. That mysterious yellow-green concoction with an X on it isn't solving anything except maybe how quickly the lab needs to be evacuated. Pro tip: if your solution to all problems comes in a single flask and bubbles ominously, you're not doing science—you're auditioning for a supervillain origin story.