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

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.

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

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

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.

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

If you ask almost any of them, do you stand behind your theory, is this the answer, I think they would almost every one say that no, no, no, I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities. We really don't know what is going on.