Quotes from Kip Thorne

I'm a real klutz computationally, so Mathematica is just ideal for me.

Closed timelike curve is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

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

I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the uncertainties in that warping and how they change.

The jury is not in, so we just don't know. But there are very strong indications that wormholes that a human could travel through are forbidden by the laws of physics. That's sad, that's unfortunate, but that's the direction in which things are pointing.

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.

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.

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.

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