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Kids' Ideas About Science - Most of these quotations were gleaned from classroom discussions in 5th and 6th grade science classes.
* "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."
* "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."
* "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."
* "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."
* "To most people, solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists, solutions are things that are still all mixed up."
* "I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing."
* "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."
* "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 hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size."
* "Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound."
* "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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* "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."
* "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."
* "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."
* "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."
* "To most people, solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists, solutions are things that are still all mixed up."
* "I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing."
* "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."
* "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 hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size."
* "Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound."
* "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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