Saul Perlmutter

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

#ask #chance #fate #favourite #fundamental

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

#feel #felt #fine #how #i

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#expects #nobel #nobel prize #nobody #prize

Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#campus #coveted #get #important #important thing

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

#back #bit #come #help #how

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

— Saul Perlmutter

#any #feel #humbled #look #many

This is the kind of discovery that resonates. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#kind #resonates

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

#earth #floating #foundation #ice #last

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

#apple #bit #blast #into #like

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

— Saul Perlmutter

#expanding #expect #faster #gravity #just