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

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

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

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

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

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

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 that now we have a chance to revisit it