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

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

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, 'Well, why do you ask?'

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 forward to is getting the perfect parking spot

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

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

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