I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot and plays and things like that. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much less than… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
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… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
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… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
