Quotes by Saul Perlmutter

About Saul Perlmutter:

Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
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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 U...

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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

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.

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I tend not to dwell too much on ultimates.

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

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

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This is the kind of discovery that resonates.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.

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

Saul Perlmutter

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.

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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 thin...

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

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I am delighted, excited, and deeply honored.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameSaul Perlmutter
  • DescriptionAmerican astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
  • BornSeptember 22, 1959
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhysicist; Astronomer
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Physics