Brian Schmidt Quotes

If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.

Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.

Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.