“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.”

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.

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.

Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.

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

Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow.

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

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

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

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.

I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages to English, there is often a choice between a Latinate cognate and a Germanic equivalent.