10. Getting grant money to play.

9. It has its quarks.

8. You can finally find something colder than your ex.

7. It makes you look intelligent.

6. The more you learn, the less you know, and the more you know, the less you learn. Thanks Heisenberg.

5. Rocks are too dirty.

4. If you’re lucky you can glow in the dark after your experiments.

3. You used to smash cars as a child. Now you smash atoms.

2. “But officer, if I drive really fast I won’t age as quickly.”

1. Schrödinger’s Cat was never meant to be dissected.