Saul Perlmutter Quotes

#1. 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?'

Saul Perlmutter

#2. I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.

M.R. James

#3. I am delighted, excited, and deeply honored.

Saul Perlmutter

#4. 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.

Saul Perlmutter

#5. For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into my own personality.

Warren Gatland

#6. Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.

Saul Perlmutter

#7. This is the kind of discovery that resonates.

Saul Perlmutter

#8. 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.

Saul Perlmutter

#9. It is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarinism.

Albert Einstein

#10. 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.

Saul Perlmutter

#11. I've started to treat my health like a science project.

Sophia Bush

#12. I tend not to dwell too much on ultimates.

Saul Perlmutter

#13. 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.

Saul Perlmutter

#14. 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.

Saul Perlmutter

#15. My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Sylvester Stallone

#16. 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.

Saul Perlmutter

#17. It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community.

Saul Perlmutter

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

Saul Perlmutter

#19. 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.

Saul Perlmutter

#20. 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.

Saul Perlmutter

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

Saul Perlmutter

#22. I love you," I told him. "And all of this, our life, is everything I wished to have but wasn't sure I could keep. I never felt like that with Alex, James. I always knew that what we shared wouldn't last. He never belonged to me. Not the way you do.

Megan Hart

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

Saul Perlmutter

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

Saul Perlmutter

#25. I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#26. Just remembering what you did in previous lives doesn't mean a thing. It's nice to remember that you had higher states of mind, but that won't necessarily get you there. It might even make things painful.

Frederick Lenz

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

Saul Perlmutter

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

Saul Perlmutter

#29. 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.

Saul Perlmutter

#30. 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.

Saul Perlmutter

#31. Don't they teach y'all anythin' in school these days?"

She frowned. Apparently they needed to improve the current How To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse 101 courses.

Amy Cook

#32. Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

Samuel Richardson

#33. Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.

Saul Perlmutter

#34. It was one of those simple facts of life: the sky was blue, gravity kept our feet firmly on the ground, and I loved Katie Weber." ~ Jamie

Catherine Gayle

#35. 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.

Saul Perlmutter

#36. From the Young Army Fact List:
Fact One: No early morning roll call:
GOOD.
Fact Two: Much better food. GOOD.
Fact Three: Aunt Zelda nice: GOOD.
Fact Four: Princess-girl friendly: GOOD.
Fact Five: Have Magyk ring: GOOD.
Fact Six: Extraordinary Wizard Cross: BAD.

Angie Sage

#37. 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.

Saul Perlmutter

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

Saul Perlmutter

#39. God huffed and took a couple more breaths before he released his secret to his best friend. No one knew this story except him and the DA of Clayhatchee, Alabama. "When

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