Eric Allin Cornell

“A Bose-Einstein condensate is a new state of matter where atoms behave like a single superatom.”

“What we've created is a group of atoms that are all in the same quantum state.”

“We were just trying to cool atoms down to the lowest possible temperatures.”

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”

“For a physicist, the world is a fascinating place, a puzzle with no box of instructions.”

“It's a very collaborative process, this thing called science.”

“The nice thing about science is that you can't just make stuff up.”

“The fun part of science is the process of discovery.”

“The Nobel Prize is a wonderful thing, but it's not the reason you do science.”

“You have to be very persistent and very patient.”

“I think the public has a great deal of curiosity about the world around them.”

“You're always on the edge of what's known and what's not known.”

“There's a beauty in the underlying laws of physics.”

“Failure is a huge part of science. You try something, it doesn't work, and you learn from that.”

“The joy of science is in the discovery, the process of finding something new.”