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 demonstrate is really, really true

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

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 be surprising

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

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

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call