Simon Helberg credited as playing...
Howard Wolowitz
- [first lines]
- Penny Hofstadter: Oh, hey, if you guys are free this weekend, I won a night of wine-tasting from work.
- Leonard Hofstadter: That sounds fun.
- Penny Hofstadter: Mm-hm.
- Leonard Hofstadter: How come scientists don't win free stuff like sales people do?
- Howard Wolowitz: 'Cause we're not in it for the stuff; we're in it for the groupies.
- Sheldon Cooper: Personally, I find the notion of external rewards demeaning; I pursue science for the intrinsic joy of discovery.
- Amy Farrah Fowler: But you always say that you want to win a Nobel prize.
- Sheldon Cooper: I also say don't contradict me in front of my friends, and that you don't remember.
- Zack Johnson: I love science. Einstein, Steven Hawking, Mike deGrasse Tyson.
- Amy Farrah Fowler: Mike deGrasse Tyson?
- Howard Wolowitz: Yeah, you know. the boxer who grew a moustache and became a scientist.
- Amy Farrah Fowler: I'm getting an earthy note.
- Penny Hofstadter: There's definitely some oak.
- Raj Koothrappali: Also, cherries?
- Leonard Hofstadter: I smell nothing.
- Howard Wolowitz: Really? Nothing?
- Leonard Hofstadter: Just a whole lot of Afrin.
- Howard Wolowitz: We absolutely know our invention will not be used to destroy the world.
- Leonard Hofstadter: How?
- Howard Wolowitz: Because no one from the future has come back to kill us.