Charlie Eppes: I've gone months without leaving the house.

Charlie Eppes: In the first place, uh, we-we're not even sure that there, that there is a bomb, so ...
Alan Eppes: Bomb?
Charlie Eppes: Well, we don't know where it's gonna go off.
Alan Eppes: Well, maybe not, but I would suggest that people quickly taking a ride out of town in an easterly direction might be of help right now.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Well, possibly not with these current wind conditions.

Charlie Eppes: Is that the kind of stuff you talk about with Megan at lunch?
Don Eppes: Wait, hold on. You and Megan went out to lunch?
Alan Eppes: Please tell me you ordered something other than white food.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: This was a meal shared by two inquisitive minds in an intellectual pursuit.
Charlie Eppes: Of course it was, like all of your lunches with David. Oh, and with Colby.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: A gamma ray burst will release more energy in ten seconds than the sun will ever emit in its ten billion year lifespan.
Don Eppes: I got it, what's the Hulk's real name?
Charlie Eppes: Um, Bruce Banner.
Don Eppes: That's right. Didn't gamma rays turn him into the Hulk?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: [ignoring them] They come from the farthest ends of the universe, and after 45 years, we're still uncertain of their origin.
Alan Eppes: And?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: And we're closer to an answer on that than the three of you will ever get on this.
[Larry leaves]
Charlie Eppes Megan ...
Don Eppes: ... and Larry.
Alan Eppes: Now, there's an image.

Charlie Eppes: It sounds like they created a classic game theory scenario, doesn't it?
Marshell Pentfield: Yes, it does. "Johnny von Neumann", the old three man gunfight.
Colby Granger: A mathematical gunfight, huh?
Marshell Pentfield: Imagine a duel between three people. Now, I'm the worst shot. I hit the target once every three tries.
[Indicates Charlie]
Marshell Pentfield: One of my opponents is better. Hits it twice every three shots.
[Indicates Colby]
Marshell Pentfield: The third guy is a dead shot. He never misses. Now, each gets one shot. As the worst, I go first. Then Charlie, then Colby. Who do I aim for, for my one shot?
Colby Granger: I guess me 'cause I'm the biggest danger, right?
Marshell Pentfield: [makes a gun shooting motion toward Charlie] I shoot Eppsey first, but not for the obvious reasons. Chances are two to one I'm going to miss.
Charlie Eppes: And now it's my turn. Logic says I shoot Colby. [makes shooting motion toward Colby]
Colby Granger: Right, 'cause if I'm still standing, I'm gonna shoot you, and I don't miss.
Charlie Eppes: Exactly.
Marshell Pentfield: As the worst, I use the two better shooters against each other.

Charlie Eppes: It's from someone who says she's a fan of my work. She's also a fan of my ... hair.

Charlie Eppes: It's like the evidence proves him right and wrong at the same time.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Oh yeah, the old paradox of Schrödinger's cat.
Alan Eppes: Is that that Persian that keeps hiding out in our garage?
Charlie Eppes: Uh-uh, it's an intellectual exercise.
Alan Eppes: I knew that.

Charlie Eppes: It's not a code. It's a story told in numbers.

Charlie Eppes: Knocking on the door from 300 miles above Earth.
David Sinclair: Well, we're about to knock a lot harder.

Charlie Eppes: Larry, have a minute?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Yes. Because we all have exactly the same number of minutes at all times, do we not?

Charlie Eppes: Larry, I was there when he gave that paper. And you stood up and called him a big fat cheater in front of a room full of people.
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Well, no. Now, you're exaggerating. That room could not have been more than half full.

Charlie Eppes: Larry, is everything all right?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Everything? Well, I'm not sure that I can account for the state of all matter, but ...
Charlie Eppes: You know exactly what I'm talking about! Stop trying to Fleinhardt your way around answering me!

Charlie Eppes: Math is nature's language: its method of communicating directly with us. Everything is numbers.

Charlie Eppes: My circle tangent joke went right over the senator's head.

Charlie Eppes: My first day at CalSci, I stood in this office, and Biederman sat right there and he gave me the onceover and asked: "Are you the Boygenius that everybody says you are?"
Amita Ramanujan: And now Biederman is retired and you are the man... oh, pardon me... the Mangenuis!

Charlie Eppes: No one likes to hear I told you so.