Sometimes the best people to be around are not exactly like you - because if they were, what is the point? If they contribute something different than you can, that is when they are valuable.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

Duct tape is not a perfect solution to anything. But with a little creativity, in a pinch, it's an adequate solution to just about everything.

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

If at first you don't succeed, C4

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources - it's a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so.

One of our neighbors is a salami distributor, and they pretty well - I mean, we used their salami to make a rocket engine out of. They just look at us and they're amused, they're fine with it.

It takes courage and maturity to realise your own story.

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

I know something about aircraft carriers for real.

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any kind of abuse, or any dream.

I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.