You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.

Schmidt. The advertisement showed his passion for the study of the cosmos at even a very young age. Saul Perlmutter (born September 22 1959) is an American astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California Berkeley.

Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.