Subject: Science/Weather (Page 6)

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

(1934 – 1996) American astronomer, astrophysicist & author

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

I don’t believe in astrology… I’m a Sagittarian, and we’re skeptical.

(1917 – ) English physicist & science fiction author

Wind: Weather on the go.

Unbeknownst to most historians, Einstein started down the road of professional basketball before an ankle injury diverted him to science.

(1950 – ) American cartoonist The Far Side

It is so hot… I saw a chicken lay a fried egg.

Science: An orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be the facts.

Bad weather reports are more often right than good ones.

1. An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction.
2. An object at rest will be in the wrong place.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

A circle is a line of no depth running round a point forever.

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

Five out of every three people have trouble understanding fractions.

(1927 – 2018) British comedian, singer & songwriter

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

(1906 – 1998) French mathematician

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom’s apple pie.

(1926 – 1991) American television journalist

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour; sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute; that’s relativity.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Show me an archaeologist, and I’ll show you a man who practices skull drudgery.

Plenty of people believe in energy conservation – mainly their own.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

(1902 – 1971) American comedian & singer

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

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist