Subject: Science/Weather (Page 5)

Everything else causes cancer in rats.

I played as  much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday.

professional golfer

Computing power increases as the square of the cost; if you want to do it twice as cheaply, you have to do it four times slower.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

In India, ‘cold weather’ is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door knob and weather which only makes it mushy.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Psychology: The science that tells you what you already know in words you can’t understand.

Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight; blue sky at night… day.

Humorist

I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

professional golfer

Winter: The time of year when it gets later earlier.

Four of us slept in the one bed; when it got cold, mother threw on another brother.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer; we have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got Saran Wrap – FIX IT!

In Alaska, we have just two seasons — this winter and next winter.

(1897 – 1991) American Air Force General

It is so hot… chickens are laying hard-boiled eggs.

Distant relatives are the best kind, and the further the better.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

(1937 – ) English painter, printmaker, stage designer & photographer

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music… and of aviation.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter

I can levitate birds… no one cares.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Bodies in motion tend to remain in motion; bodies at rest tend to remain in bed.

Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from nonpractitioners.

Why are the pictures square if the lens is round?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Statistician: A person who can draw a mathematically precise line from an unwarranted assumption to a foregone conclusion.