I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
ADAM SAVAGEThis is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
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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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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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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
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I’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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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 had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”
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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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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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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,
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