I think "MythBusters" is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It's more challenging and even transcendental.

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

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.

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.

When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.

Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.

I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something.

I was born into public service.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.

It's hard for me not to be extraordinarily cute. I had to fight it.