The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup. Kip Thorne More Quotes by Kip Thorne More Quotes From Kip Thorne 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 placeyouuniverseblack 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. Kip Thorne pretendlivelikeuniverse 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 youfuturechangetime I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your brain mushy and go to sleep. Kip Thorne youbrainsleepnight 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 viewgreatyoucreative 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 respectpowerhopescience When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us. Kip Thorne myselfmusicscienceart
