50 Quotes by Saul Perlmutter

What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space.

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.

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.

You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.

This is the kind of discovery that resonates.

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice.

If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.

I tend not to dwell too much on ultimates.

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.