Subject: Science/Weather (Page 9)

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

American baseball player

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3.

(1943 – 2004) author & psychologist

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've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

(1972 – ) American actress & former model

Calculus: The branch of mathematics that is so scary it causes everybody to stop studying mathematics.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

The day of the big heat wave is the day the office air conditioning breaks down.

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

You’ve never been lost until you’ve been lost at Mach 3.


Five out of every three people have trouble understanding fractions.

(1927 – 2018) British comedian, singer & songwriter

My theory [is] that modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and that it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.

(1950 – ) writer & 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

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

(1955 – ) magician & showman

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

(1906 – 2005) architect

Remember folks, stop lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

(1948 – 1990) comedian

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

It is so hot… potatoes cook underground.

There will be a procession next Sunday afternoon in the grounds of the monastery; but if it rains in the afternoon, the procession will take place in the morning.

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