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

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.

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

i trust our connection, regardless of what logic has to say.

My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.