Subject: Science/Weather (Page 3)

Anything, no matter how bad, will sound good if played at a very high volume for a short time.

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

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

It is so hot… I saw a dog chasing a cat and they were both walking.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there the second time.

(1940 – ) American ventriloquist, comedian & actor

I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

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

I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It’s a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

It was so cold… the kids at school were using flannel notebooks.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

(1903 – 1957) Hungarian-American mathematician

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.

(1929 – ) British television & radio critic

Scientists who dislike the restraints of highly organized research like to remark that a truly great research worker needs only three pieces of equipment – a pencil, a piece of paper, and a brain… but they quote this maxim more often at academic banquets than at budget hearings.

If [the weather] didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

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

I don’t know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan’s Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Space isn’t remote at all; it’s only an hours drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

(1915 – 2001) English astronomer & mathematician

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

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

I can levitate birds… no one cares.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Cold Wave Linked To Temperatures

Not all chemicals are bad; without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist