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.

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?'

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

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

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

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