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Child Science   
Date: Sent Wednesday, May 6, 2026
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The beguiling ideas about science quoted here were gleaned from essays, exams, and classroom discussions. Most were from 5th and 6th graders. They
illustrate Mark Twain's contention that the "most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
* 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.
* Talc is found on rocks and on babies.
* The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.
* South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.
* There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.
* Lime is a green-tasting rock.
* Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.
* In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's.
* Clouds are high flying fogs.
* I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.
* Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do.
* Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.
* Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water.
* We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won't drown when we breathe.
* In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.
* A blizzard is when it snows sideways.
* A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.
* A monsoon is a French gentleman.
* It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.
* The wind is like the air, only pushier.
Received from Thomas Ellsworth.
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