Subject: Science/Weather (Page 10)

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

If [the weather] didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

(1917 – ) English physicist & science fiction author

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian

The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required on it.

The remaining distance to your chosen campsite remains constant as twilight approaches.

I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

(1972 – ) American actress & former model

The progress of science varies inversely with the number of journals published.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

No experiment is reproducible.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.

(1929 – ) British television & radio critic

It is so hot… the trees are whistling for the dogs.

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

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not on theirs.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

Genetic Engineering: Tampering with chromosomes so that science might develop a new miracle cure or a rabbit that plays the banjo. –

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter

A circle is a line of no depth running round a point forever.

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science; Dennis Rodman is only one example.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

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

So dry the catfish are carrying canteens.

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy.

(1819 – 1880) American oil driller