The beguiling, strange and funny ideas about science, quoted here, were gleaned from essays, exams, and classroom discussions. Most were from 5th and 6th graders.

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 lightning and tell how close you came to get hit. If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never mind.

Talc is found on rocks and babies.

The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming down.

When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. 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.

Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.

While the earth seems to to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating.

Someday we may discover how to make magnets that point in any direction.

South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.

Most books now say that 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 can not make up its mind which way it wants to go.

There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth, because of so much population stomping around up there these days.

Lime is a green-tasting rock.

Many dead animals in the past changed into fossils while others preferred to be oil.

Vacuums are nothing, We only mention them to let them know we know we know they are there.

Some oxygen molecules help fires burn, while others help make water, so sometimes is brother against brother.

Some people cal tell what time it is by looking at the sun.
But I have never been able to make out the numbers.

Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't, why you should.

We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation.
Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.

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