The Idea That There Could Be Other

For Me It's Been Very Exciting To Contribute To The Public's Understanding Of How Rich And Wondrous Science Is.

But If You Think About A Practical Implication Of Enriching Your Life And Giving You A Sense Of Being Part Of A Larger Cosmos And Possibly Being Able To Use This [gravitational Waves] As A Tool In The Future Maybe To Listen Not Just To Black Holes Colliding, But Maybe Listen To The Big Bang Itself, Those Kind Of Applications May Happen In The Not Too Distant Future.

If The Theory Turns Out To Be Right, That Will Be Tremendously Thick And Tasty Icing On The Cake.

When You Buy A Jacket, You Pick The Size To Ensure It Fits. Similarly, We Live In A Universe In Which The Amount Of Dark Energy Fits Our Biological Make-up. If The Amount Of Dark Energy Were Substantially Different From What We've Measured, The Environmental Conditions Would Be Inhospitable To Our Form Of Life.

Physicists Are More Like Avant-garde Composers, Willing To Bend Traditional Rules... Mathematicians Are More Like Classical Composers.