Words matter. These are the best Saul Perlmutter Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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?’
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.
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.
Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.
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.
The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.
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.
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.
If you ask almost any of them, ‘Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?’ I think almost everyone would say, ‘No, no, no. I’m just trying to expand the range of possibilities.’ We really don’t know what’s going on.
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.
This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth’s ice sheets and floating ice shelves.
It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.
