Rocket scientist

Rocket scientists have calculated that a velocity of seven miles per second, or approximately 25,000 miles per hour, would be necessary for a rocket to escape the earth's gravity.

These rocket scientists constitute a valuable nucleus for carrying the peacetime development programs of the Army and Navy.

"There was hardly a German sufficiently competent to talk about the V-2 and other big stuff," Grigory Tokady, a Russian rocket scientist sent to investigate immediately after the German defeat, later revealed.

When a rocket scientist does a sanity test, he's pinching himself back into reality and asking if what he has done adds up. […] By writing equations and sorting the symbols by the rules of algebra, the rocket scientist can predict how high and how fast the rocket will go and when it will get to its destination, which could be as far away as Pluto—4 billion miles from the sun.

By the 1940s, his work in this area was so advanced that German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun remarked that "[Robert Hutchings] Goddard's experiments in liquid fuel saved us years of work, and enabled us to perfect the V-2 years before it would have been possible."

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that that idea won’t work.

"OK," you say, "I understand that definition and although I'm not a rocket scientist, it appears to make sense. What else is there? I just want a couple of F-16s to go along with my AEGIS Destroyers and Abrams Tanks. Push the button and send the planes."

While visiting another province, I remarked that I thought a particular cabinet minister was not exactly a rocket scientist. The reply from a fellow cabinet minister in that province was, 'Yes, I agree. A is not a rocket scientist. But I'm sorry to say that about 25 per cent of the people in this province are decidedly not rocket scientists, and they deserve representation, too.' And that story is only half in jest.

[Sandra] Witelson delved into her collection and retrieved the brains of contributors who were both mentally and physically healthy, with IQs from 107 to 125. No dunces here, but no rocket scientists either.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that as a culture we are obsessed with almost every aspect of technology.