“It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.”

I wouldn’t say jamie is an evil genius. I’m not sure he’s evil and I’m not sure he’s a genius.

Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.

I’ve always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there’s a little bit of truth to it.

Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!

It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.

I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.

There’s this group online that I frequent.

“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”

My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.

And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,

Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.

Bad spellers of the world untie!

These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we’re doing, and they consistently thank us.

There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn’t saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It’s nothing to be admired.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

I found myself highly critical of any leader who failed to lead by example.