About Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Barry Barish

The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.

— Barry Barish

It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements.

— 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…

— Barry Barish

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

— 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…

— Barry Barish

I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort.

— Barry Barish

Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times…

— Barry Barish

If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.

— Barry Barish

The first instrument is not the final instrument.

— Barry Barish