Charlie Eppes quotes from Numb3rs

Charlie Eppes

You're rocketing into space, Larry. There's no downside in packing a lucky shirt.

Charlie Eppes

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

Charlie Eppes

[reading from the Manifesto] When biotechnology creates a marketplace where genetic material, who we are, can be bought and sold like a slave in the block, there is no freedom there.

Charlie Eppes

I feel like I'm in some dream with the ghost Larry, and I just want to wake up and talk to the real guy.

Charlie Eppes

I know math is full of absolutes; unfortunately, the rest of the world isn't.

Charlie Eppes

The two great adult influences in my life are heading off to blow up pumpkins.

Charlie Eppes

I failed. I failed to make myself understood. Sometimes there are things in my head that are so purely what they are that when I try to turn them into words, there either are no words, or I just don't know how. And you can't imagine how that feels. How hard it is to have an idea and not be able to share it.

Charlie Eppes

Dad, you called a tenured university professor to come fix the koi pond?

Charlie Eppes

We're going to need dry-erase boards. Lots of dry-erase boards.

Charlie Eppes

According to my instructor, in the event of a firefight my best course of action is to get into a fetal position and call for my mama.

Charlie Eppes

[to Don] You and I have two very different world views, and that's fine. But now you're crossing into my world and making assumptions about how people like me can or should work.

Charlie Eppes

[to Amita] It's too quiet with my dad away, drop a spoon or something.

Charlie Eppes

He brought the class gerbil home for Christmas break. He was so cute and I was playing with him while I was conducting an experiment one day and...who knew that gerbil fur was so flammable?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Here's a discussion: Why is it we remember the past and not the future?

Charlie Eppes

That's a tough one, Larry.

Amita Ramanujan

Actually, I'm spoken for, Mr. Eppes.

Alan Eppes

Really?

Amita Ramanujan

Back in Madras my parents arranged for marriage to a family friend. Nice Hindu banker from Goa.

Charlie Eppes

Really? Getting married?

Amita Ramanujan

God, no. He's a total ass.