We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
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More Adam Savage Quotes
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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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