The beguiling ideas about science quoted here were gleaned from essays,
exams, and class room discussions; most were from fifth- and
sixth-graders. They illustrate Mark Twain's contention that the "most
interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they
know and then stop."


Question:  What is one horsepower?


Answer: 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 back 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 be oil.


 - Vacuums are nothings.  We only mention them to let them know we know
they're 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 other places.












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