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The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at that moment.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

Anything can happen at Pipeline; it's one of those waves where the most amazing wave can come through in one minute, and then nothing can happen for an hour.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.

The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen.

The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser.

I'm doing physics because I'm curious about how it works - full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don't worry about whether somebody is going to be able to do an experiment next week, just figure it out.