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.
ADAM SAVAGEMy dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.
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Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.
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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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“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.”
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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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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Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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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.
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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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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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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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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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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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