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

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

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

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?'

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.

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

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call