I've heard it differently : "Hydrogen and stupidity" and variously attributed to everybody from Frank Zappa to Einstein.
Here's a goodie:
"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."
--Frederich von Schiller, The Maid of Orleans
At least in this one we KNOW the actual author and the precise quotation. BTW, Asimov used "The Gods Themselves" as the title of a novel (not a very good one, in my opinion)...
--Boris