Funny Quots

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

  -- John Desmond Baernal (Irish physicist, 1901-1971) in a Lecture at Birkbeck college, University of London, 1960.

Now the funniest of the thoughts that one can hear or say about science & scientific terms

"Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water."

"When you breath, you inspire. When you do not breath, you expire."

"When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide"

 "Nitrogen may be found in United States but it is not found in free state"

"Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire." 

 "The tides are a fight between the Earth and moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight."

"Germinate: To become a naturalized German."

"To keep milk from turning sour: Keep it in the cow."

"One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second"

"Some day we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction." 

 "A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go."

"There are 26 vitamens in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered."

"Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime."

"Disk Operating System: The equipment the Doctors use while operating a disk. "

"MicroChips: What's left in the bag when the chips are gone."