159 Quotes by Jamie Hyneman

Children are just little scientists.

We've done a zombie episode - only one - and the way we look at it as is we understand that there probably aren't zombies out there for real, but there's a lot of interesting stuff we can test about them. We've tested how bodies of zombies pressing against a gate, would they push it through and things like that.

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.

I have to say that we're not actors, at least on 'Mythbusters' or any of the other television projects that we've done.

I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.

It's the results that are surprising, even results where we've totally screwed up, and then learned something in the process, are the ones that stand out. Having our preconceptions overturned is actually thrilling for us.

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

One of the main reasons for success on the show is that we're not a demonstration show. We're an experimentation show.

If you get the question right, if you really define it, then the answers are just sitting there waiting for you. And it's something a little different than people usually think.