Larry Fleinhardt quotes from Numb3rs

Charlie Eppes

Hey, hey, don't get all Fleinhardt on me. It's just the Physics Department Paper Airplane contest.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Fleinhardt? Since when did my last name become a predicate adjective?

Charlie Eppes

Since your students started using it that way.

Don Eppes

Who made this?

Charlie Eppes

Me. Why?

Don Eppes

Well, the wings are a bit thin.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Hey, wait, wait, let me see this.

Charlie Eppes

Forgive me if all my years in advanced applied mathematics take issues with that assessment.

Don Eppes

Well, forgive me if all my years in high school detention say I'm right.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

You know, Don, you and I are very alike. We are both focused on large possibly unattainable goals. Me trying to explain the workings of the universe ...

Don Eppes

And what am I doing? Trying to take all those unworkable workings and put them in jail. Yeah, good luck to both of us.

Charlie Eppes

I need the fastest way to the computer lab.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

I know a shortcut through Metallurgy.

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.

Don Eppes

... and Larry.

Alan Eppes

Now, there's an image.

Amita Ramanujan

So, Larry, what are you going to do with all of your stuff?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Oh, I don't know. Hey, you can take home your dinnerware if you want.

Don Eppes

Hey boys, how we doing? What's for breakfast?

Charlie Eppes

Toast and tori.

Don Eppes

Tori? What do you mean, that looks like Cheerio's.

Charlie Eppes

Tori, plural of torus. A shape with a hole in it.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Well, topologically speaking.

Don Eppes

Mind if I have a rectangle?

Alan Eppes

You're ruining the game for the schmucks who play it to enjoy.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Yeah, well, those are the schmucks who should stick to slot machines.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Nine! Nine! Nine!

Alan Eppes

Back off, Rain man.

Charlie Eppes

Hey, Amita, do you remember that we were going to do that one thing earlier?

Amita Ramanujan

What thing?

Charlie Eppes

That thing you said we needed to do. Let's go do it.

Megan Reeves

What was that?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Merely a very crude attempt at lending privacy.

Megan Reeves

Well, I didn't run away from home, but I didn't walk either. And unlike Crystal, I can live with all of my decisions. I don't even regret most of them. Does that make you uncomfortable?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

[shaking his head] Look. I'm a man who lives in hotel rooms and sleeps on couches.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Does that make you uncomfortable?

Megan Reeves

Nooo, I find it oddly attractive.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

ugh You constantly put me in mind of the M57 Nebula, with these layers upon layers of endless complexities.

Megan Reeves

You know, I don't think I will ever tire of being compared to the M57 Nebula.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

I should shut up, shouldn't I?

Megan Reeves

No-o, you should kiss me now.

...the spectral properties of supernova remnant 1713.7-3946... [OK, he means RX J1713.7-3946, and its spectral properties are not all that special. Wish they'd had an astrophysics consultant as well as a math consultant!]

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

I should shut up, shouldn't I?

Megan Reeves

No-o, you should kiss me now.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

[on highway attacks not being random] What about meteors?

Charlie Eppes

No, Larry. Not even the FBI can stop meteors.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt

Well, not yet, maybe ... but ...

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!