It is the only field in which two people can share a Nobel Prize for saying opposing things

October 25, 2006 7:46 PM by Tim Swanson (Archive)

Below is a recent exchange between comedian Stephen Colbert and Peter Agre, a Nobel-winning Chemist. The zinger is at the end:

Colbert: "You said 'anyone who grew up on a farm knows that evolution exists'. Ok, are you saying a monkey can milk a cow?"

Agre: "Well, if I can milk a cow I suspect a monkey as smart as I am can milk a cow."

Colbert: "Are there monkeys as smart as you?"

Agre: "I'm sure there are quite a few, quite a few.

Colbert: "Oh really? mmhum. Do they give a Nobel prize for thowing your own faeces?"

Agre: "........That's the Economics prize, I think."

Addendum: link to video on YouTube.