Best 12 quotes of Saul Perlmutter on MyQuotes

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.

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

If you ask almost any of them, do you stand behind your theory, is this the answer, I think they would almost every one say that no, no, no, I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities. We really don't know what is going on.

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

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

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?'

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

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

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

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

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

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