“We’re really just the frosting on a cake and we don’t know what’s inside the cake.”

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees.

It’s everywhere, really. It’s between the galaxies. It is in this room.

We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

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

We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.

Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects.

Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

Never call a man a fool; borrow from him

This music is my heart and soul. This is who I am.” (Adam R. Young, 2006)

I guess the answer to the question would be I’m inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.

Diligence is not easy, but we can’t reach our goals without it.

We always may be what we might have been.

But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.