Terry Pratchett Quotes

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

The climate informs the character.

Among all of our uncertainties weather is the most basic. We can’t live without it and we can’t control it.

If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn't understand consciousness. We wouldn't even understand turbulence.

How come it rains every Hall of Fame weekend? They need to move it to a different weekend.

Linus: It was a short summer, Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown: And it looks like it's gonna be a looong winter.

I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.

Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

I'm just moving clouds today, tomorrow I'll try mountains.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

Of course climate change is real.

Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

Australian weather's amazing! You notice that when you go overseas.

Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.