We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
ADAM SAVAGESo my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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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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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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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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There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
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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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If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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Failure is always an option.
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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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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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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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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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The car is effectively a black box.
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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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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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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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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