We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

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.

A new millennium brings with it great changes that will definitely affect the physical realm

Greatness is born out of proper time management.

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaffBelieve a woman or an epitaphOr any other thing that’s falseBefore you trust in critics.

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

I have learned that if this is what I am going to do, and do it well, then I have to avoid drinking.