Arno Allan Penzias

“The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.”

“The best scientists are the ones who have the most fun.”

“We were just trying to do a good experiment. We didn't set out to prove the Big Bang.”

“It was a measurement of excess antenna temperature. The radiation was coming from the sky, it was coming from everywhere, at the same intensity, day and night, through the seasons.”

“We had this unexplained noise. It was a very quiet noise, but it was there, and we couldn't get rid of it.”

“If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.”

“The world is not a clockwork mechanism. The world is a much more complex and interesting place than that.”

“The data was so clean, so perfect, that we knew it had to be real.”

“I think the most important thing is to be curious. To ask questions. To not be afraid to say 'I don't know'.”

“My job is to help people be more productive. The way I do that is to give them information.”