If at first you don't succeed, C4

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.

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.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.

Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

What makes you happy is seeing someone else smile because you put it there. That's what's awesome about living in this world.