I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.