Humility Memes

The ultimate intellectual humility flex! Even with a Physics PhD and working at NASA, this brilliant scientist still needs to Google basic formulas. It's the scientific equivalent of a Michelin-star chef checking how long to boil an egg. V = (4/3)πr³ might be the volume of a sphere, but the real formula here is: (Advanced Degree) + (Prestigious Job) - (Basic Knowledge) = Pure Scientific Authenticity. Next time someone judges you for forgetting the quadratic formula, just remember: somewhere at NASA, a rocket scientist is secretly looking up density = mass/volume.

The great Feynman strikes again! Everyone's got opinions on politics, climate change, and what your ex is doing wrong, but mention magnets and suddenly it's all "how do they work?" Energy conservation? Sure. Quantum chromodynamics? No problem. But ask someone to explain magnetic fields without using the word "force" and watch their brain short-circuit faster than an undergrad's laptop during finals week.

The pandemic really humbled the physics community! While biologists and chemists were front and center battling COVID-19, developing vaccines and treatments, physicists were suddenly... not the heroes of the scientific narrative. For decades, physicists dominated scientific discourse with their grand unified theories and particle accelerators, often looking down on "softer" sciences. Then COVID hit, and suddenly those biochemistry classes everyone skipped became pretty darn important. Nothing like a global pandemic to make you realize that understanding proteins might be slightly more urgent than string theory. The physicists' collective "perhaps I treated you too harshly" is basically science's version of "sorry I was a jerk in high school, you're actually cool now."