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?'

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

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

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

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

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.

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