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

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

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.

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

Time became more important the closer to death one was, so an extra few hours to make peace with the world were worth more than years.

When necessity speaks it demands.

When I worked with anybody like Woody Allen, there's the name, and your understanding of who they are before you meet them, that stays in your head a little bit.

May you and I run in such a way to receive the prize of gold when we run the race of passionate faith.

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

Don't get stressed over the little things and make sure you're enjoying life to the fullest.

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

When you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you've got to keep it until the reason no longer exists.

More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.