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.
ADAM SAVAGEIts strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
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Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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This 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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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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There is no dignity in television.
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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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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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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 would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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I’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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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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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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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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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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