If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine. — Barry Barish Ambitious Copy Share Image
The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments. — Barry Barish Complex Copy Share Image
When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write… — Barry Barish Ambition Copy Share Image
I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges. — Barry Barish Bridges Copy Share Image
In a sense, the searches for both magnetic monopoles and gravity waves are very similar. But, theoretically, gravity waves are more solid. — Barry Barish Gravity Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that, now that we have another way to look at the universe, that there isn't going to be some… — Barry Barish Look Copy Share Image
I think there's a bit of truth that LIGO wouldn't be here if I didn't do it, so I don't think I'm… — Barry Barish Bit 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… — Barry Barish Aura Copy Share Image
I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort. — Barry Barish Ambivalent Copy Share Image
I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me. — Barry Barish Challenges Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an experimental physicist and was attracted to the idea of using continuing advances in technology to carry… — Barry Barish Done Copy Share Image
The size of the effect that we measured from the first event, the merging of two black holes, the actual size of… — Barry Barish About Copy Share Image
Scientists, especially physicists, we're presumptuous and think we can do everything better than everybody else. And one thing that I realized early… — Barry Barish Better Copy Share Image
In a small lab, if you make a mistake, you can go in the next day and fix it. But here, when… — Barry Barish Checks and balances 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… — Barry Barish Change 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… — Barry Barish Constant struggle Copy Share Image
A lot of missions for NASA or experiments on accelerators happen through a whole process of scientific retreats, long-range planning, forming collaborations… — Barry Barish Goals Copy Share Image
After my mother died, I learned that she'd had a scholarship to the University of Nebraska, but - in kind of a… — Barry Barish Father Copy Share Image
The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics. — Barry Barish Gravitational 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… — Barry Barish Beach Copy Share Image
Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful… — Barry Barish Attention 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… — Barry Barish Black Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements. — Barry Barish Because Copy Share Image
It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends. — Barry Barish Computers Copy Share Image
It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job. — Barry Barish Job Copy Share Image
The problem for large scientific projects is to do something that is being done for the first time, balanced against cost, schedule.… — Barry Barish Balancing act Copy Share Image
The fact that people can predict gravity wave sources that are within shouting distance makes me feel incredibly confident. Compared to monopoles,… — Barry Barish Distance Copy Share Image
It's crazy that we happen to have a country where it depends on what political party you are in whether you believe… — Barry Barish Believe Copy Share Image
We said that with initial LIGO, detections would be possible, and with Advanced LIGO, detections would be probable. — Barry Barish Advanced Copy Share Image
The 4th Concept is welcomed and encouraged. In the end, it's my hope and belief that the best ideas are what will… — Barry Barish Belief Copy Share Image
Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he… — Barry Barish Day Copy Share Image
Everything we know about the universe is studied by using telescopes or other instruments that look at visible light, infrared, ultraviolet or… — Barry Barish Everything Copy Share Image
If we get to the design sensitivity and make no detections, then there are a lot of things that will have to… — Barry Barish Design Copy Share Image
The technical challenges were technical challenges that were not unbeatable; it was just that we had to learn how to do things… — Barry Barish Challenges Copy Share Image
