Science hierarchy Memes

Fields Arranged By Purity

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The scientific hierarchy complex in one perfect comic! Mathematicians casually existing in their abstract realm while everyone else squabbles about which discipline is more "pure." Physics majors thinking they're the pinnacle of applied science, chemists feeling superior to biologists, and poor sociologists at the far end getting roasted as "applied psychology." The academic superiority complex is strong with this one! Meanwhile, mathematicians are off in their own universe of pure abstraction, blissfully unaware that the rest of science even exists. As someone who survived undergrad physics, I can confirm this hierarchy is discussed with deadly seriousness in department lounges everywhere.

The Scientific Reductionism Rabbit Hole

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The scientific discipline hierarchy meme perfectly captures that moment when you realize your entire field is just a fancy subset of something more fundamental. Each brain gets progressively more enlightened as we dive deeper into the rabbit hole of reductionism. It's the academic version of the "wait, it's all X?" "always has been" meme. Chemists think they're special until physicists remind them about electron orbitals. Then mathematicians swoop in with their equations, only to be humbled by logicians who reduce everything to propositions. And finally, the cosmic joke: even our precious logic is just neurons firing in squishy brain matter. The real galaxy brain move? Realizing we're all just arguing about which floor of the same building we work on.

The Scientific Hierarchy Of Feline Contemplation

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The Scientific Hierarchy Of Feline Contemplation

The scientific hierarchy of curiosity, as demonstrated by one judgmental feline! Engineers build the tech, technologists peek under the hood, but physicists? They're the ones calculating exactly how much force is needed to knock that tea cup off the table. The cat's expression screams "I've already calculated the gravitational potential energy of this cup, and let me tell you, chaos is just one paw-swipe away." Pure science in action - theoretical meets practical in 3...2...1...

An Apology From The Physics Community

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Remember when physicists spent centuries strutting around like the superheroes of science? Then COVID hit and suddenly biologists and chemists were saving the world while physicists were just... calculating things in their pajamas! 🧪💉 The great reckoning has arrived! After generations of stealing the spotlight with their fancy equations and theoretical particles, physicists finally had to watch from the sidelines as their lab coat cousins actually, you know, solved a REAL crisis. The ultimate revenge of the "soft sciences"! And now they're all "Perhaps I treated you too harshly" like some defeated cosmic villain. Too late, physics friends! We've seen you in your natural habitat - theorizing while the world burns!

The Scientific Hierarchy Of Smugness

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Behold the eternal academic food chain! The top panel shows sciences arranged by "purity" with physicists smugly declaring dominance while mathematicians exist in their own dimension entirely. Meanwhile, the bottom panel reveals the dirty secret - as complexity increases, everyone's just desperately simplifying reality to make their equations work! This is basically every interdepartmental faculty meeting distilled into its purest form. Physicists think they're the apex predators of science until they need to calculate something with actual real-world messiness. Then suddenly it's "assume a spherical cow" time! And poor mathematicians, off in their abstract universe where numbers don't even need units. They're playing 5D chess while everyone else is arguing about whose science has more prestige. Truly the introverts of the academic world!

The Academic Hierarchy Of Pain

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The academic food chain in one perfect meme! Nothing triggers departmental warfare faster than reducing someone's life's work to "just applied something else." Mathematicians sit smugly at the top of this reductionist pyramid while biologists get shot from both sides. The hierarchy goes: Math → Physics → Chemistry → Biology, with each field desperately trying to maintain its dignity while being told they're merely the practical application of something more "fundamental." Next time you're at an interdisciplinary conference, drop one of these lines and watch the chaos unfold. Bonus points if you tell a mathematician it's all just applied philosophy!

The STEM Cave Allegory

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1 month ago 4.7K views 0 shares

Behold Plato's allegory of STEM majors! Math folks are strolling blissfully in the sunshine, completely oblivious to reality. Physics majors are halfway down the cave, still clinging to theoretical elegance while occasionally glancing at actual problems. Meanwhile, engineers are deep in the trenches, building torches and solving real-world disasters with duct tape and differential equations. The hierarchy is perfect—mathematicians create problems, physicists describe them, and engineers fix them. It's the academic food chain in its natural habitat!

The Scientific Rabbit Hole Of Doom

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The scientific rabbit hole of DOOM! Each field peeks inside the other until you reach math—and then the existential crisis hits! Biology is made of chemistry, chemistry is made of physics, physics is made of math, and math is just... *gestures wildly* PURE ABSTRACT TERROR! No wonder that cat looks like it's seen the fundamental truth of reality. When you stare into the void of pure mathematics, the void stares back with equations!

Fields Arranged By Scientific Ego

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The scientific hierarchy in its full glory! Physicists strutting around like they're the purest science ("It's nice to be on top!"), while mathematicians are so abstract they don't even notice anyone else exists. 🤓 But flip the script to complexity and suddenly everyone's defensive about their turf! Sociologists dealing with unpredictable humans, psychologists ignoring consciousness because it's TOO HARD, and physicists perking up at the mention of "small-scale interactions" like quantum gossip they can't resist. Meanwhile, mathematicians are off in their own dimension, manipulating numbers without units like some kind of reality-free wizards. The ultimate scientific family feud where everyone thinks their problems are the hardest!

The Evolution Of Scientific Maturity

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The evolution of a science student in four panels! 😂 We start with that cocky freshman physics major who thinks he's solved the universe because he understands F=ma. Then we graduate to the buffed-up sophomore who realizes each field deserves respect. By junior year, we're dropping knowledge bombs about emergent phenomena - those fascinating properties that can't be predicted by studying individual components alone. Like how water molecules give us surface tension, or how neurons create consciousness! Finally, we reach science enlightenment: recognizing that interdisciplinary collaboration is where the real magic happens. Biology needs chemistry, chemistry needs physics, and sometimes physics needs a biologist to explain why their theoretical model makes no sense in living systems! The muscles just get bigger as the wisdom grows. Coincidence? I think not! 💪🧠

The Scientific Ladder Of Importance

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The scientific hierarchy in one staircase! Our red-capped hero is sprinting past botany (who needs plants?), zoology (animals are just a stepping stone), and ecology (merely a pit stop) to reach the "prestigious" human physiology and biochemistry at the top. It's the perfect visualization of how some biology students prioritize their studies—skipping the foundational sciences like they're avoiding vegetables at dinner. The irony? Those bottom steps support everything above them! Nature's pyramid scheme where everyone thinks the human-focused fields deserve the penthouse.

The Scientific Hierarchy According To Pooh

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The Scientific Hierarchy According To Pooh

The scientific hierarchy according to Winnie the Pooh! Chemistry gets a mild "meh" reaction, physics transforms our bear into a sophisticated gentleman, but biology? That's where Pooh loses his mind with excitement! It's basically every science department's holiday party in one image. Biology students are having the time of their lives dissecting frogs, physics majors are discussing quantum mechanics over wine, and chemistry folks are just trying not to blow up the lab again. The eternal science department pecking order has spoken!

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