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> [When the signal reached LIGO from a collision of two stellar black holes that occurred 1.3 billion years ago, the 1,000-scientist-strong LIGO…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/when-the-signal-reached-ligo-from-a-collision-of-two-stellar-black/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

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> [The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/the-detection-of-gravitational-waves-is-truly-a-triumph-of-modern/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

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> [Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/einstein-had-two-new-predictions-from-general-relativity-one-was-that/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

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## Other authors on Gravitational Waves

## More by Barry Barish

> [The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much less than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/the-waves-are-subtle-altering-spacetime-and-the-distance-between/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [When the signal reached LIGO from a collision of two stellar black holes that occurred 1.3 billion years ago, the 1,000-scientist-strong LIGO Scientific Collaboration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/when-the-signal-reached-ligo-from-a-collision-of-two-stellar-black/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/it-s-hard-to-do-large-expensive-projects-without-some-sort-of/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/the-detection-of-gravitational-waves-is-truly-a-triumph-of-modern/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/it-s-very-difficult-to-tell-when-you-re-successful-because-it-s-so/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/i-live-on-the-santa-monica-beach-and-bike-up-and-down-almost-every/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/i-think-the-scientific-goals-and-the-technical-challenges-were-the/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [There's some aura about a Nobel Prize, there's a prestige, that gives me a responsibility that I didn't have before, that goes beyond my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/there-s-some-aura-about-a-nobel-prize-there-s-a-prestige-that-gives/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/i-have-somewhat-ambivalent-feelings-about-the-recognition-of/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/anything-that-makes-us-take-more-seriously-scientists-or-economists/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/if-we-are-going-to-build-an-ambitious-machine-then-it-s-got-to-be-a/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [The first instrument is not the final instrument.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/the-first-instrument-is-not-the-final-instrument/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [Scientists, especially physicists, we're presumptuous and think we can do everything better than everybody else. And one thing that I realized early is, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/scientists-especially-physicists-we-re-presumptuous-and-think-we-can/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [I can't imagine that, now that we have another way to look at the universe, that there isn't going to be some enormous surprises.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/i-can-t-imagine-that-now-that-we-have-another-way-to-look-at-the/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

> [When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-barish/when-i-was-really-young-my-ambition-wasn-t-to-do-science-i-didn-t/)

[Barry Barish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-barish/)

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