Actually, many years ago, we had a company-wide vote for our informal company-wide mascot, and the choices came down to the Boston tree fern, beef tape worm and a llama. And somehow the llama won the vote!
- Will Wright

I know I spoke about Neil Tyson before.. but I think I’m going to make him the official Daily Weird Quotes Mascot.

I never get tired of his speeches or his writings. I find him fascinating and very candid.

Here he is discussing Human Intelligence?

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
- Drew Barrymore

I have no idea how the question raised in my head… but there it popped up. Does the sun make noise? Does it even have a sound? So I Google’d it, and lo’ and behold… there it is.
The Singing Sun:
The Sun’s sound waves are normally at frequencies too low for the human ear to hear. To be able to hear them, the scientists sped up the waves 42,000 times — and compressed 40 days of vibrations into a few seconds. What you’ll be hearing are just a few dozen of the 10 million resonances echoing inside the Sun.

Thanks to the Stanford Solar Center for making the nifty website!

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
– Niels Bohr

Einstein’s inspiration was a compass his father showed him. It always pointed north, and it seemed to know this invisibly. What force was behind the compass? That started Einstein’s inspiration to get into science.

How can you tell if a Smurf suffocates? That was my inspiration to get into science. Sadly, Smurfs are almost impossible to obtain so no tests were ever completed. So I left science and began watching TV instead.