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

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

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?'

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

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

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.