Famous Quotes of Weather and Science

Meteorological and Scientific Quotes
	-- Well known quotes

Weather Quote

Sailor weather quotes:

“Sailors…say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true for our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.”
Elwyn Brooks White

“How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as heed warnings?”
J. Swift 1667- 1745

“A windy March and a rainy April make May beautiful”
E. Leigh 1657

“Look when the clouds are blowing
and all the winds are free:
In fury of their going
They fall upon the sea.
But though the blast is frantic,
And though the tempest raves,
The deep intense Atlantic
Is still beneath the waves.”
Fredric William Henrey Myers (1843-1901)

“There is no such thing as bad weather,
Only different kinds of good weather.”
John Ruskin 1819-1900

“Look not to leeward for fine weather.
J. Heywood 1546

“No weather is ill
If the wind is still.”
W. Camden 1623

“Big whirls have little whirls
That feed on their velocity,
And little whirls have lesser whirls
And so on to viscosity
L. F. Richardson

“The fog comes on little cat feet.”
Carl Sandburg
“To a child all weather is cold.”
J. Heywood 1546

“It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds
are dashing the waves about, to watch from shore the struggle of another.”
Lucretius, 99-55B.C.

“When the wind backs
And the weatherglass falls,
Then be on your guard
Against gales and squalls.”
Source unknown

“….the term ”acid precipitation” means the wet or
dry deposition from the atmosphere of acid chemical compound.“
The congress of the United States, Acid Precipitation Act of 1980,
Title VII of the Energy Security Act of 1980,
P.L 96-294 Section 702 (c)

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it adn wrong too often for us to rely on it.
~ Patrick Young

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while ~ Kin Hubbard

There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of mutual attraction of rain and weekends.
~Arnot Sheppard

Any proverb about weather are doubly true during a storm.
~Ed Northstrum

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
~Author Unknown

"....While you practice weather may you have successful coffeeogenesis and may it always stack baroclinically and never have the unpleasant taste of being brewed barotropically."
.....MST1 Jeff Estes (after being with the AF for this long sitting in a classroom I felt the need to share my thoughts!)

Principles of science

Famous scietist quotes:

On doing science - Descartes and the Scientific Method
From Rene Descartes we get more that the name "Cartesian". In 1637 he published a book Discours de la Methode, in which he defined the principles of the modern scientific method:

Accept something as true only if you know it to be ture.
Break difficult problems into small parts, and solve each part in order to solve the whole problem
Start from the simple, and work towards the complex. Seek relationships between the variables
Do not allow personal biases or jugdement to interfere, and be thorough.

This method formed the basis of the scientific renaissance, and marked an important break away from blind belief in philosophers such as Aristotle.

On doing science -- Scientific laws --- The Myth
There are no scientific laws. Some theories or models have succeeded for every case tested so far, yet they may fail for other situations. Newton’s “Laws of Motion” were accepted as lows for centuries, until they were found to fail in quantum mechanical and relativistic situations. It is better to use the word “relationship” instead of “law”. Einstein said “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
Because a single experiment can prove a relationship wrong, it behoves us as scientists to test theories and equations not only for the reasonable values of variables, but also in the limit of extreme values, such as when a variable approaches zero or infinity. These are often the most stringent tests of relationship.

LeChatelier's Principle
LeCharelier might have had his nose in chemistry beakers, but his notions of chemical equilibria are easily generalized to describe circulations in the atmosphere.
he started with a few reacting chemicals that were in equilibrium with each other. By adding an extra amount of one of th chemicals, he disturbed the equilibrium. However, reactions then occurred to partially eliminate the excess chemical, thereby bringing the reagent in the beaker to a new equilibrium.
An analogous chain of events occurs when solar heating induces instabilities in the atmosphere. The atmosphere generates circulations to eliminate the instability and reach new equilibrium. Some of these thermal circulations result in clouds and turbulence.
For situations where the atmosphere is continuously being destabilized by solar heating of the ground, the atmosphere continuously reacts by creating thermal after thermal or cloud after cloud. Similarly, continuous dynamic destabilization creates continuous turbulence, as a reaction that reduces wind shear by mixing.

Meteors and meteorology
Ancient Greeks defined “meteors” as anything in the sky. They were particularly concerned about missiles the gods might toss down, such as bits of rock, ice, or lightening bolts.
Only much later did scientists discrimate between missles from space (bits of rock called meteoroids) and missles from the atmosphere (bits of just about anything else from the sky). But by then “meteorology” was a firmly entrenched as the name for atmospheric science.
Accourding to the Glossary of Meteorology, meteorologists study the following meteors:
- Hydrometeors – wet: clouds, rain, snow, fog, dew, frost, etc.
- Lithometeors – dry: dust, sand, smoke, haze.
- igneous meteors – lightening, corona
- electrometeors – lightening (again), thunder
- luminous meteors – rainbows, halos, sun dogs
Except for “hydrometeors”, these terms are seldom used any more.