Subject: Science/Weather (Page 13)

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself… and you are the easiest person to fool.

(1918 – 1988) American physicist

Going fast while you are lost won't help a bit.

It's a good thing we have gravity, or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there; hunters would be all confused.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1819 – 1880) American oil driller

Chance of Rain Today Depends On Where You LIve

In mathematics you don't understand things… you just get used to them.

(1903 – 1957) Hungarian-American mathematician

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

(1899 – 1995) humorist

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

I took a physics course that was so hard I couldn't find the classroom.

comedian

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

(1857 – 1927) Unitarian Universalist minister

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

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

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

It is so hot… the cows arre giving evaporated milk.

It was so cold… my shadow froze to the sidewalk.

Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight; blue sky at night… day.

Humorist

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

(1871 – 1937) New Zealand-born British nuclear physicist

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

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The vehicle in front of you is traveling slower than you are.

It is so hot… by the time I got home from buying eggs, I had twelve chicks in the bag.

Alcohol is a good preservative for everything but brains.

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