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

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

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

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not

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

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

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

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

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

Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before.

If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.

No matter how far apart we are, don't forget that we're still under the same sky, both traveling to the place we once dreamed of.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Rome is everybody's memory.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.