Subject: Science/Weather (Page 15)

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

What does the word 'meteorologist' mean in English? It means 'liar.'

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

Normally in Chicago, you always have some kind of weather.

May you be cursed with chronic anxiety about the weather.

(1837 – 1921) naturalist & essayist

Large Celestial Object Stuns Astronomers

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

(1807 – 1873) paleontologist, glaciologist & geologist

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

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Playing in this nice weather really makes me remember all the times I got stung by a bee.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

professional golfer

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

(1911 – 1978) U.S. vice president & politician

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Science was my most favorite subject, especially the Old Testament.

(1973 – ) American actor

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music… and of aviation.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter

A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.

Physics is like sex; sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

(1918 – 1988) American physicist

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Alcohol is a good preservative for everything but brains.

author

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician