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" 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. "
Team
You
Spirit
" Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators. "
Without
Questions
Ask
" 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. "
Speed
Universe
Will
" 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. "
Understanding
View
Chance
" I am delighted, excited, and deeply honored. "
I Am
Am
Deeply
" 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. "
Say
Trying
You
" If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company. "
Good
Energy
Good Company
" I tend not to dwell too much on ultimates. "
Tend
Dwell
Much
" It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast. "
Ending
Choice
Cold
" 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. "
Community
Opportunity
Fun
" 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. "
Job
Kind
Universe
" 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?' "
Wake Up
Interesting
Morning
" I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us. "
Always
World
Us
" 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. "
Growing Up
Life
Achievement
" Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call. "
Nobody
Prize
Call
" Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus. "
Space
Parking
People
" 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. "
Back
Help
Understanding
" 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. "
Down
Universe
Surprise
" There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled. "
Feel
You
Look
" This is the kind of discovery that resonates. "
Resonates
Kind
Discovery
" 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. "
Understanding
Earth
Foundation
" 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. "
Accounting
Universe
Picture
" What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space. "
Seeing
Space
Air
" 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. "
Wrong
Want
Trying
" You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster. "
You
Down
Expect
" 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. "
Mind
You
Want
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