American - Physicist | June 1, 1940 -
I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction.
Kip Thorne
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In subjects that physicists think of as purely quantum, classical ideas and classical computational techniques can often be powerful.
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If you think that the distance from the Earth to the nearest planet where we could live comfortably... is being, like, from New York to Australia... what we've achieved so far, in going to the moon, that's about two-and-a-half inches. So that's the challenge.
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We're born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don't have a curiosity don't have it because it's gotten beaten out of them in some way.
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We'll have four different gravitational wave windows open within the next 20 years, and each of them will see something different. We'll be probing the birth of the universe with this. The so-called 'inflationary era' of the universe. We'll be probing the birth of the fundamental forces and how they came into being.
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As a true scientist, I have been proved wrong so many times that I'm very humble.
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I'm a real klutz computationally, so Mathematica is just ideal for me.
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