The Big Bang Theory, Season 12

Leonard:
Professor Thorne.

Professor Kip Thorne:
Dr. Hofstadter.

Leonard:
Uh, you know my wife Penny.

Penny:
Hi.

Leonard:
Uh, we wanted to talk to you about Dr. Cooper. Now before you say no...

Thorne:
No.

Leonard:
Well, then after you say no…

Thorne:
No.

Penny:
Okay, look, Sheldon a paint in the ass… but Dr. Fowler is really nice. So if you average them out... math... you've got someone who's really okay.

Leonard:
But more than the person, the Nobel is about the work. You should understand that more than anybody.

Penny:
Yes, because of your work on gravitational waves.

Thorne:
You know my work?

Penny:
I do. I'm really hogging the conversation, Leonard?

Leonard:
Just give them a chance. Science has a history of difficult people. Look at Newton who was a jerk to Leibniz, and Leibniz who was a jerk to everyone.

Penny:
Yeah, and you know, I don't need to tell you that gravitational waves are disturbances in the curvature of space-time. And that the... Hey, you worked on the movie Interstellar?