Wormholes – if you don’t have something threading through them to hold them open, the walls will basically collapse so fast that nothing can go through them. Kip Thorne Read Quote
Closed timelike curve’ is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. Kip Thorne Read Quote
If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don’t find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe. Kip Thorne Read Quote
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. Kip Thorne Read Quote
I can enjoy ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Star Trek,’ but I really appreciate hard science fiction. Kip Thorne Read Quote
I can’t imagine not being in a phase where I’m trying to understand something or create something. That’s the essence of life. Kip Thorne Read Quote
When you fall into a black hole, everything that falls in after you over millions of years, as seen by you inside the black hole, comes pounding down on you in a fraction of a second, because of the enormous differences of time flow. Kip Thorne Read Quote
I think that the future of the human race is to spread through the universe, and now is the time that we should be laying the foundations for that. Kip Thorne Read Quote
As a true scientist, I have been proved wrong so many times that I’m very humble. Kip Thorne Read Quote
My passion is to understand the non-linear dynamics of warped space-time, and the ideal venue for this is black-hole collisions. Kip Thorne Read Quote
