Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.

It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the….

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the enti….

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled..

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and ….

You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself..

It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'We….

Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus..

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forwar….

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.

If you ask almost any of them, do you stand behind your theory, is this the answer, I think they would almost every one say that no, no, no, I'm just….

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast..

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Univer….

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community..

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will….

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demons….