I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot

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

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

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.

Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame.

Can't you see... that I made it? Yeah I made it First I made you who you are, but then I made it.

While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term.

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!

School reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.

I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him.