"Come on, Norm. You geniuses always make one thing, and have a better one on the drawing boards."
—Hobgoblin to Norman Osborn, Spider-Man: The Animated Series
Madblood: "I do make backups, you know!"
Mell: "Isn't that, like, against the mad-science rules?"
Mell: "Isn't that, like, against the mad-science rules?"
— Narbonic
27. I will never build only one of anything important.
— The Evil Overlord List
The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
— Adam Savage, MythBusters
Tim: He's a mad scientist; he invented this steroid called oxypheromalkahyde. He tested it on this orphan kid, but it didn't work, did it? So he chucked out his research, kicked the kid out into the street. But when the kid reached puberty, the dormant oxypheromalkahyde interrupted his DNA coding and he mutated into the Bear. Doktor Mandrake has dedicated his life to capturing the Bear to rediscover the effects of oxypheromalkahyde.
Daisy: So... why didn't the doctor just make the oxy-poxy-drin again?
Tim: [very long pause] Well... because he invented it by accident, didn't he?
Daisy: So... why didn't the doctor just make the oxy-poxy-drin again?
Tim: [very long pause] Well... because he invented it by accident, didn't he?
— Spaced
Making a copy is like fitting wheels to a tomato. Time-consuming and completely unnecessary!
— Dr. Samuel Johnson, Blackadder the Third
Sunni: Why do I have to make the [Gummiberry] juice? Can't you just write down the recipe?
Grammi: You'll never lose it if it's here (points to head) and no one can take it from you if it's locked in here (points to heart).
—Adventures of the Gummi Bears, "The Secret of the Juice"
