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

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

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.

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

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not

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

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 Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community