Quotables

Mr. Wallace’s wall of Dizzying Intellect!

The Southern Cross I saw every night abeam. The sun every morning came up astern; every evening it went down ahead. I wished for no other compass to guide me, for these were true. Captain Joshua Slocum SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD

A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings, on the other hand, are messy, inexact things which are believed by everyone except the man who did that work. Harlow Shapley THROUGH RUGGED WAYS TO THE STARS

**The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. ** **Douglas Adams ** **THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE **

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

Mr. Wallace to Aaron Rittenhouse. - "Park it!" Aaron Rittenhouse (pointing back to Jimmy Le in accusation and with wide, crazy person eyes) to Mr. Wallace - "His middle name is Pocahontas!" 10'/11'

Mr. Wallace to Brian Fries. - "Hey, is that an Eagles bracelet?" Brian Fries. - "Oh no! Its an 'I heart boobies' bracelet!" 10'/11'

"Your Galileo has ventured to meddle in things that he ought not and with the most grave and dangerous subjects that can be stirred up these days." Pope Urban to Francesco Niccolini September 5, 1632

Syntax is the serial killer of all young scholars. Mr. Wallace

** Mr. Wallace to Sydney Nickisher - "You're six grams over the limit!" ** ** Sydney Nickisher to Mr. Wallace - "I haven't finished all of it!!" 10'/11' **

**Mr. Wallace - "Are you chewing gum?!" ** <span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif';">Marissa Adams - "I think so." 10'/11' **

**<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"What if its made out of bones?" - Ilan Gonzalez 10'/11' **

<span style="background-color: #404040; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Bodoni MT Black','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">“Giraffeacorn” – Ray Tumy 10'/11'


 * If the stimulus increases in geometric progression (multiplicatively), then the sensation increases in arithmetric progression (additively). – G.T. Fechner **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"What about hepatitus?" - Josh Starner 11'/12' **

**"I'm not a blind person!" - Nick Waibel 11'/12'**


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Wait, Germany has beaches?!" - Jacob Castillo 11'/12' **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">"Not a Giraffe Man, a D-R-A-F-T-M-A-N!" - Amanda Hunsberger 11'/12'

//"No! I need to go home and tell my mom to get some medicine to FIX MY JACKED UP FACE!!!" - Daniel Frankenfield 11'/12'//
//I'm not a bug! - Jacqui Rsuh 11'/12'//

//"In the beginning there was darkness, and then there was the WORM HARVEST!" - Wallace 11'/12'//

//** While holding a cardboard box, "Is this plastic?" - Casey Giersch 11'/12' **//

//** I didn't think we were gonna make it back alive! - Maddie Bauder 11'/12' **//

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"Blown your mind has been." Nicholas (Jimmy) Wang 12'/13' (Yoda voice)

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"I gotta lick the blood off..." (licked finger) -Abby Esch <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"Conflict makes me faint." -Abby Esch 12'/13'

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> Mr. Miarino: Any wrestlers that missed sign ups must wrestle Mr. Gorlitz... (during afternoon announcements ). 12'/13'

<span style="background-color: #404040; color: #ffff00; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"Polaris Minor." Adam Rizzo 12'/13'

<span style="background-color: #404040; color: #00ff00; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"I've built the Taj Mahal out of Legos..." - Raja Sembhi 12'/13'

<span style="background-color: #404040; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"Galileo was before astronomy." - Kenny Orrego 12'/13'

<span style="background-color: #404040; color: #ffff00; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"I remember the crap out of pencils!" - RonJon 12'/13'

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"I'll just eat the rest." Aubri Schoen 12'/13'

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #808080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"I thought we weren't supposed to put our heads in bags." -Keirsten Brown 12'/13'

<span style="background-color: #000080; color: #008080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"As soon as you're off task, we're going to smash your computer." (wallace) <span style="background-color: #000080; color: #008080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"But its one fourth mine!" -Delaney Minor 12-13'


 * "Can we all take a moment to appreciate Mr. Wallace's new shirt." Delaney Minor **
 * "Oh, he looks like a tablecloth!" - Kyle Wambold 12'-13' **


 * "I was wrong...on so many levels." - Mitchell VanDerbeek 12'-13' **


 * "Diangular." Chad Coleman 12'-13' **


 * Question 14. What units is the labeled map scale in? (1:24000) **
 * Josh Sanderlin, Kyle Mauger, Evan Hurst: "1inch = 24,000creek" **


 * "Are you eating icing?" - Chris Manns 13'-14' **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #181818; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.” <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #181818; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">― <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666600; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[|Claude Lévi-Strauss]

― [|Terry Pratchett], [|Mort]
==<span style="background-color: #84ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. ==

Lord Billingsley
<span style="color: #009954; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">While exploring a globe..."I found Alaska! Just kidding, its Pakistan." Ali Weaver

==While explaining orographic lifting and why the windward side of a mountain is always more vegetated than the leeward side, Kevin Juszynski searched for the word "water" in his head, but could only come up with, "stuff gets dropped on that side, like the things that make things grow..." ==

= In exasperated desperation, Brittnay Lenig, with longing eyes extended a single hand to Mr. Wallace from her desk and asked beseechingly, "Do you like me?...I mean..." but it was already to late, hilarity had consumed the situation. =

** "Your eating air!" - Brendan Hillegass **
=** When discovering that a chef is hidden in the state shapes of the US, Nick Stout exclaims in a **= = = =** horrified voice, "Now I can't un-see it!" **= = = =** Followed by Kevin Juszynski happily asking, "Are there any other beings hidden in there?!" **=

** Alina Amey: "An apple a day keeps the hepatitis away." **
=** Harbert Barnt"Why don't dogs get hairballs?" **=