Subject: Science/Weather (Page 5)

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

(1905 – 1983) Hungarian-British author & journalist

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra; in real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

It was so hot in Beverly Hills, people were frying egg whites on the sidewalk.

American comedian

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.

Space isn’t remote at all; it’s only an hours drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

(1915 – 2001) English astronomer & mathematician

It is best to read the weather forecast before we pray for rain.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

No matter how clear the skies are, a thunderstorm will move in 5 minutes after the papers are delivered.

Bad weather reports are more often right than good ones.

I don’t believe in astrology… I’m a Sagittarian, and we’re skeptical.

(1917 – ) English physicist & science fiction author

At school, Applied Math was all about working out grams and dollars… we called it Crystal Math.

comedian

Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It’s a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts; our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

(1919 – 2000) Canadian prime minister & politician

Rare is the “improvement” that will ever repay the time lost in performing it.

It ain’t the heat; it’s the humility.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt.

(1908 – 1968) Soviet physicist

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

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

Equations are the devil’s sentences.

(1964 – ) comedian, political satirist, writer & television host

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

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

A rolling stone gathers momentum.