50 Quotes by Saul Perlmutter

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

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.

You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it’s just expanding faster and faster.

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

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.

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?’

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.

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

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it’s more a pleasure if it’s boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.