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We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.

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.

The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race.

My experience in science has always been that the future always exceeds what we believe is possible. I suspect that we will explore the universe.

And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

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.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

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

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.