Subject: Science/Weather (Page 3)

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

(1819 – 1880) American oil driller

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

Technology: The knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.

(1911 – 1991) Swiss playwright & novelist

The amount of time you have to wait for a bus is directly proportional to the inclemency of the weather.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra; in real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

Normally you have news, weather and travel, but not on snow day, on snow day news is weather is travel.

(1976 – ) English comedian & actor

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

It was so cold… when we milked the cows, we got ice cream.

I went to Moscow once; it was so cold at night one guy fell out of bed and broke his pajamas.

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

I’d like the window that says “Are you sure you want to do this? “OK/Cancel” to pop up less often on my computer and more in my real life.

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

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

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

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

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

A rolling stone gathers momentum.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

comedian, counselor & speaker

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