# One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.”
# “You can listen to thunder after lightning and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don’t hear it, you got hit, so never mind.”
# “Talc is found on rocks and on babies.”
# “Isn’t inertia when something is moving, then it stops moving and keeps moving?”
# “The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.”
# “When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.”
# “When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.”
# “Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.”
# “While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating.”
# “Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.”
# “South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.”
# “Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south.”
# “A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.”
# “There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.”
# “There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up there these days.”
# “Lime is a green-tasting rock.”
# “Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils, while others preferred to be oil.”
# “Genetics explain why you look like your father, and if you don’t why you should.”
# “Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they’re there.”
# “Some oxygen molecules help fires burn, while others help make water, so sometimes it’s brother against brother.”
# “Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.”
# “We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.”
# “To most people, solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists, solutions are things that are still all mixed up.”
# “In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H’s as O’s.”
# “Clouds are high flying fogs.”
# “I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.”
# “Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do.”
# “Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.”
# “Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water.”
# “We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won’t drown when we breathe.”
# “Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail.”
# “Rain is saved up in cloud banks.”
# “In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.”
# “Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog’s tongue will kill the strongest man.”
# “The wind is like the air, only pushier.”
# “A blizzard is when it snows sideways.”
# “A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.”
# “A monsoon is a French gentleman.”
# “Thunder is a rich source of loudness.”
# “Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.”
# “It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.”
# “Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.”
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