"Enough to make a time study and add up to four. Enough to balance the price of equipment against the lost man-hours because of the lack of it, and come up with a mathematical decision."
"But an eminently impractical decision; blood cannot be extracted from a radish."
"No, but you can dig up a bunch of radishes, sell them, and buy a pint of blood."
"That takes time. Just wait. As soon as we catch up with our budget—"
"If you hadn't sent through that appropriation—"
"I have that right."
"For what?"
"A device that, first, is needed right in our laboratory and, second, will eventually bring in millions once it is developed in large size."
"And may I ask the nature of this marvelous instrument?"
"Mangler, what would be the ultimate worth of a device that can extract the radioactivity of—"