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TRUE QUOTES ABOUT SCIENCE FROM KIDS ~ One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second. ~ You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never mind. ~ 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. ~ While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating. ~ Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change into a sun in the daytime. ~ A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go. ~ Many dead animals of the past changed to fossils, others preferred to become oil. ~ Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they are there. ~ 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. ~ I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing. ~ In making rain water, it takes everything from H to O. ~ Rain is saved up in cloud banks. ~ Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog's tongue will kill the strongest man. ~ Thunder is a rich source of loudness. ~ Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound. ~ It is so hot in some parts of the world that the people there have to live in other places. |