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.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

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

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

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

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

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