Subject: Science/Weather (Page 7)

Show me an archaeologist, and I’ll show you a man who practices skull drudgery.

When the ducks are walking, you know it is too windy to be playing golf.

American professional golfer

Inertia: Tendency of a skier’s body to resist changes in direction or speed due to the action of Newton’s First Law of Motion.

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

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Physics is like sex; sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

(1918 – 1988) American physicist

If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d all have frozen to death.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

You’ve never been lost until you’ve been lost at Mach 3.


If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

(1919 – 1991) American comedian & actor

1. An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction.
2. An object at rest will be in the wrong place.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’, but ‘That’s funny…’

(1920 – 1992) American science and science fiction author & professor

Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.

(1914 – 1997) American writer

Large Celestial Object Stuns Astronomers

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

A lot of people like snow, but I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

(1922 – ) actor, film director, producer, writer & comedian

It is so hot… Dick Cheney waterboarded himself.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.

Why are the pictures square if the lens is round?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

Megahertz: this is a really, really big hertz.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

Hotter than a depot stove