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. Kip Thorne Read Quote
I wanted to be a snowplow driver when I was a kid. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, that’s the most glorious job you can imagine. But then my mother took me to a lecture about the solar system when I was 8, and I got hooked. Kip Thorne Read Quote
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. Kip Thorne Read Quote
A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado. Kip Thorne Read Quote
If you have somebody who’s brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen. Kip Thorne Read Quote
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. Kip Thorne Read Quote
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. Kip Thorne Read Quote
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool. Kip Thorne Read Quote
I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the world thought I was. Kip Thorne Read Quote
The human race has a yearning to explore. That’s part of our biological and psychological makeup. Kip Thorne Read Quote
