Excerpts from Real Science Papers by Kids

* Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they are there.

* 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 getting hit. If you don’t hear it, you got hit, so never mind.

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

* Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change into a sun in the daytime.

* A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.

* I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.

* Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog’s tongue will kill the strongest man.

* Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But for me — I have never been able to make out the numbers.

* In making rain water, it takes everything from H to O.

* Rain is saved up in cloud banks.

* Thunder is a rich source of loudness.

* Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.

* It is so hot in some parts of the world that the people there have to live in other places.