"If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?"

"We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work."

Putting saliva in a dog's mouth in an attempt to make a bell ring

"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?"