Subject: Science/Weather (Page 14)

Bad weather reports are more often right than good ones.

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

Trees that grow in smoggy cities are needed to make carbon paper.

comedian

Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.

(1920 – 2011) American scientist & professor

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

American entrepreneur

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

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

(1912 – 1977) German-born rocket engineer

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Winter: The time of year when it gets later earlier.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

It's hotter than the hinges on the gates of hell.

The earth is bipolar.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

I like to play in the low 70′s… if it gets any hotter than that I’ll stay in the bar!

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

On the downside, it's loaded with sexual predators; on the plus side, it's also loaded with sexual prey.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

It's always the wrong time of the month.

Five out of every three people have trouble understanding fractions.

(1927 – 2018) British comedian, singer & songwriter