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

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?'

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

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

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