Subject: Science/Weather (Page 11)

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it rains.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

Art is science made clear.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

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

Archaeology is the science that proves you can’t keep a good man down.

Unbeknownst to most historians, Einstein started down the road of professional basketball before an ankle injury diverted him to science.

(1950 – ) American cartoonist The Far Side

There's no place like home.com!

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

It was so cold… we didn't clean the house – we just defrosted it.

Everything else causes cancer in rats.

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

(1948 – ) English novelist

A hurricane you can watch come at you for a week on the TV, and you don't get out of the way; a tornado – you're just in a trailer making meth; next thing you know, it's tipped over.

Canadian comedian

I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

We’re not used to weather in June in this country.

professional football player, coach & executive

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.

(1844 – 1912) Scottish poet, novelist & literary critic

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour; sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute; that’s relativity.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

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.

The climate of England has been the world’s most powerful colonizing impulse.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

(1915 – 1987) Brazilian/British biologist

It’s not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist