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

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

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

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe

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?'