Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.

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

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

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.

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

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.