"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan

Nature abhors a vacuum. So does my sister's dog.

Black holes suck.

The most important part of a microbiologist's job is not letting the little things get to him.

I like angles, but only to a degree.

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. And as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Einstein

Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the math, you can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosaurs. The tallest ones, anyway.

If heat rises, why are mountains so friggin cold?

31.69 NHz - once a year.

To most people solutions mean finding the answers but to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up...

All that glitters has a high refractive index.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..." - Isaac Asimov

"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder." - Calvin (& Hobbes)

Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.

It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theory.

Colour... it's just a pigment of your imagination.

Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.

Particle physicists are always trying to hold a meeting, but whenever they decide on a place, the time changes.

Actually, officer, if you factor in the earth's rotation, we were all speeding.

On the seventh day, God created the platypus. And God said: let's see the evolutionists try and figure this one out.

A red sign on the door of a physics professor: "If this sign is blue, you're going too fast."

Entropy - it's a tough job, but somebody's got to undo it.