Subject: Science/Weather (Page 3)

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!

I don’t know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan’s Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

(1948 – ) English novelist

Smoking is one of leading causes of statistics.

(1911 – 1993) columnist & novelist

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

It is so hot… potatoes cook underground.

The speed of time is one second per second.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The sky is falling… no, I'm tipping over backwards.


Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

What does the word 'meteorologist' mean in English? It means 'liar.'

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

We should go metric every inch of the way.

If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

American baseball player

There will be a procession next Sunday afternoon in the grounds of the monastery; but if it rains in the afternoon, the procession will take place in the morning.

Scientists who dislike the restraints of highly organized research like to remark that a truly great research worker needs only three pieces of equipment – a pencil, a piece of paper, and a brain… but they quote this maxim more often at academic banquets than at budget hearings.

1. If it is green or it wiggles – it is Biology.
2. If it stinks – it is Chemistry.
3. If it doesn’t work – it is Physics.

Fifty percent of people have a below-average understanding of statistics.

Psychology: The care of the id by the odd.