Kip Thorne Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.”

“We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.”

“We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.”

“Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity.”

“As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you're two feet, so it's impressive.”

“I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a wormhole, the theory of general relativity by itself would permit you to go backward in time.”

“I do hope that 'Interstellar' and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science - and a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with.”

“It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.”

“Our universe - it's three-dimensional, but we can pretend it's two-dimensional so it's like this sheet of paper - and we live in Pasadena over here and London is over there, and it's thousands of miles from Pasadena to London.”

“Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.”