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.

If you ask almost any of them, do you stand behind your theory, is this the answer, I think they would almost every one say that no, no, no, I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities. We really don't know what is going on.

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

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

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

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

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

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

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

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