The Big Bang Theory2007

Sheldon Cooper:
This is the very copy of the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics in which I looked up the reaction rates of mendelevium and...

Amy Farrah Fowler:
And what?

Sheldon Cooper:
No. No, no, no, no.

Amy Farrah Fowler:
What's wrong?

Sheldon Cooper:
I've made a horrible mistake.

Amy Farrah Fowler:
What are you talking about?

Sheldon Cooper:
This table. It's in square centimeters. I read it as square meters. Do you know what that means?

Amy Farrah Fowler:
That Americans can't handle the metric system?

Sheldon Cooper:
Amy, I was off by a factor of ten thousand.

Amy Farrah Fowler:
But the Chinese team found the element.

Sheldon Cooper:
Well, they shouldn't have, my calculations were wrong. There must be some resonance between the elements I didn't know about.

Amy Farrah Fowler:
So, you just got lucky?.

Sheldon Cooper:
Sheldon Cooper does not get lucky!

Amy Farrah Fowler:
[mutters] You and me both, brother. [aloud] It doesn't matter. The element was found because of you and that's ground breaking.

Sheldon Cooper:
What matters is the greatest scientific achievement of my life is based on a blunder. I'm not a genius. I'm a fraud.