Subject: Science/Weather (Page 14)

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

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

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

American baseball player

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

(1903 – 1957) Hungarian-American mathematician

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

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

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

It was so cold… I chipped a tooth on my soup.

Everything else causes cancer in rats.

Barometer: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Styrofoam is biodegradable; you people are just impatient.

American comedian & writer

He has left his body to science… and science is contesting the will.

(1939 – ) British journalist, comedian, writer & media personality

Officer, I know I was going faster than 55 MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the
 road an hour.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

It always rains on tents; rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

May you be cursed with chronic anxiety about the weather.

(1837 – 1921) naturalist & essayist

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts; our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

(1919 – 2000) Canadian prime minister & politician

Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered.

(1936 – 2013) American mathematician

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

(1913 – 1996) Hungarian mathematician

Spring is natures way of saying, “Let's party!"

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor