Science Bloopers
This page contains a selection of bloopers relating to science, gathered from a best-selling compilation by Viking Press published under the pseudonym of Alexander Abingdon in 1931. The selected extracts, edited and rearranged, are reproduced for readers in countries where the book is in the public domain, which, to the best of our knowledge, includes Australia (because more than 70 years have passed since the book's publication and because the so-called anonymous rule applies). For other countries, please check your local copyright laws.
If there was no nitrogen in the air we should die of fits of laughter.
Charles Darwin was a natulist who wrote the Organ of the Spices.
Solid wastes are excreted through the retina.
The theory of evolution was greatly objected to because it made men think.
A grasshopper has three pair of wings—anterior, posterior and bacteria.
If anyone should faint in church put her head between the knees of the nearest medical man.
To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube.
Typhoid fever may be prevented by fascination.
When you breathe you inspire. When you do not breathe you expire.
An axiom is a thing that is so visible that it is not necessary to see it.
A polygon with seven sides is called a hooligan.
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