Comment by andyidsinga

I've worked with academics over the years - people who are much smarter than me.

During that time, I've heard on more than one occasion a phrase that goes something like this "a month in the lab saves an hour in the library".

My response, was usually quote the Car Talk guys "Reality often astonishes theory"

The irony, and subject of endless entertaining remarks on the show was that Tom Magliozzi had a PhD.