Russell Baker Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

  Russell Baker

  Funny, Break Up, Work

  "The Plot Against People". The New York Times, June 18, 1968.

• Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

  Russell Baker

  Funny, Science, Car

  Russell Baker (1991). “There's a Country in My Cellar”, Avon Books

• What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.

  Russell Baker

  Jobs, Science, Moon

• I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day.

  Russell Baker

  Science, Rocks, Space

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

• So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

  Russell Baker

  Science, Moon, Men

  1969 Editoral pages, the New York Times, 21 Jul.

• Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

  Russell Baker

  Science, Facts, Breaking Down

  “The Plot Against People” by Russell Baker, www.ign.com. April 14, 2006.

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