Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every p…

- Adam Riess

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe…

- Adam Riess

It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot …

- Adam Riess

We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.

- Adam Riess

Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects…

- Adam Riess

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even…

- Adam Riess

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

- Adam Riess