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It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers.

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.

It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make of it just so we can believe we understand what's going on.

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

I think my proper response is complete amazement and awe at the universe that we are in, and how it works is just far more complicated than humans will ever properly understand.

The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.

When we see what the universe has to show us, we can go no further.

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.