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Sheldon: Greetings.
Leonard: Hey.
Sheldon: I brought Amy here to show her some of the work I’m doing.
Amy: I’m sorry, was I being too subtle? I meant compared to the real-world applications of
neurobiology, theoretical physics is, what’s the word I’m looking for? Hmm, cute.
Sheldon: Are you suggesting the work of a neurobiologist like Babinski could ever rise to the
significance of a physicist like Clarke-Maxwell or Dirac?
Amy: I’m stating it outright. Babinski eats Dirac for breakfast and defecates Clarke-Maxwell.
Amy: Absolutely not. My colleagues and I are mapping the neurological substrates that
subserve global information processing, which is required for all cognitive reasoning, including
scientific inquiry, making my research ipso facto prior in the ordo cognoscendi. That means it’s
better than his research, and by extension, of course, yours.
Leonard: I’m sorry, I’m-I’m still trying to work on the defecating Clark Maxwell, so…
Sheldon: Excuse me, but a grand unified theory, insofar as it explains everything, will ipso facto
explain neurobiology.
Amy: Yes, but if I’m successful, I will be able to map and reproduce your thought processes in
deriving a grand unified theory, and therefore, subsume your conclusions under my paradigm.
Sheldon: That’s the rankest psychologism, and was conclusively revealed as hogwash by
Gottlob Frege in the 1890s!
Amy: Seconded.
Howard: Women, huh? Can’t live with them, can’t successfully refute their hypotheses.