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

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

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

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

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?'

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

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