Leonard: Look, I know I screwed up, but it was only one interview. How much damage could it have caused?
Ms. Davis: Would you like for me to read you the e-mails from donors asking why are they giving us money if physics is a dead end?
Leonard: I didn't say it was a dead end. I just said that I was worried it might be.
Ms. Davis: So if I just said I was worried you might not have a job next week, how would you feel?
Leonard: Light-headed, and glad you asked me to sit down.

Leonard: Okay, just tell me what I can do.
Ms. Davis: I'm gonna need you to make a statement saying that you misspoke, and that you're confident the physics community is close to a major breakthrough.
Leonard: You want me to lie.
Ms. Davis: Look, Dr. Hofstadter, I'm counting on you. I think that you are the smartest physicist at this university.
Leonard: Really?
Ms. Davis: See? Lies. They're not that hard.

Amy: Hi.
Sheldon: Hello.
Amy: Huh. Looks like you've been busy.
Sheldon: Oh, I have. Uh, dark matter, uh, reconciling gravity and quantum mechanics. Supersymmetry. I've figured out the biggest problems in physics today.
Amy: Wow, you solved them all?
Sheldon: No, I just, I figured out that they're the biggest problems.

Amy: Is this about what Leonard said on the radio?
Sheldon: Absolutely not. And I do not want to talk about Leonard. Can we please just talk about anything else?
Amy: We could talk about my day.
Sheldon: Walked right into that one, didn't I?

Amy: Well, since you sort of asked, I actually had a very good day. Got some new equipment for my lab.
Sheldon: Well, congratulations. I got some new equipment, too. I got these markers. They smell like fruit.
Which I did not notice when I bought them. (sniffs) Don't really care for it.

Penny: Here, drink this. It might help.
Leonard: What if it doesn't?
Penny: Well, that's why I brought the bottle.

Leonard: No one would talk to me in the halls. They just glared at me. It's like high school all over again.
Penny: Oh, I would totally do high school all over again. But that doesn't help you.

Leonard: I got called in to the administration office.
Penny: Ooh, look at my bad boy getting called to the principal.
Leonard: We don't technically have a principal. There's a standing committee that oversees the budget.
Penny: Ooh, look at my bad boy answering questions nobody asked.

Penny: Hey, come on, look, you said a few dumb things on the radio-- what is the worst that could happen?
Leonard: I may get fired.
Penny: Okay, well, even if you did, you could find another job.
Leonard: Yeah, who wouldn't want to hire the physicist who publicly said physics is dead?
Penny: Well, I wouldn't put that under "special skills."
Leonard: I can fix it, I just need to write a retraction I don't believe in. Basically sell out to keep my job.
Penny: Great, I'll leave you to it.

Sheldon: Look, not all science pans out. You know, we've been hoping super-symmetry was true for decades, and finally, we built the Large Hadron Collider, which is supposed to prove it by finding these new particles, and it-it hasn't. And maybe super-symmetry, our last big idea, is simply wrong.
Leonard: Well, that sounds awful. Now I get why everyone hates me.

Sheldon: Well, on the bright side, after working together for 15 years, you finally get to hear me say, "You were right."
Leonard: Yeah, you did.
Sheldon: How's it feel?
Leonard: Given I might be unemployed, bittersweet.

Sheldon: Read it back to me?
Leonard: Oh, hang on. "Yes, one might question the $20 billion "to build and run the Large Hadron Collider, but on the other hand..."
Sheldon: Okay. Um, oh, oh! "On the other hand, contrary to predictions, the collider didn't create a small black hole that devoured the Earth and life as we know it." So, money well spent.

Leonard: This is depressing. Do you have any alcohol around here?
Sheldon: Uh, not surprisingly, when Penny moved out, she took every last drop.

Sheldon: Oh, but I do have several bottles of Romulan ale that I bought at Comic-Con.
Leonard: Isn't that just vodka with blue dye in it?
Sheldon: First, physics, now Romulan ale. What else would you like to defecate on?

Penny: Hey, I thought you were coming right back.
Leonard: I was, but we're both depressed, and decided to drown our sorrows.
Penny: With mouthwash? Man, that is so summer camp.
Sheldon: It's Romulan ale, from Star Trek.
Leonard: It was briefly legalized during the alliance between the Romulan Empire and the Federation at the time of the Dominion War.
Penny: Aw, now I'm depressed.