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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In subjects that physicists think of as purely quantum, classical ideas and classical computational techniques can often be powerful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time. "

" I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a wormhole, the theory of general relativity by itself would permit you to go backward in time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My passion is to understand the non-linear dynamics of warped space-time, and the ideal venue for this is black-hole collisions. "

" Black holes do not emit light, so you visualize them through gravitational lensing - how they bend light from other objects. "

" A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size. That's not true. A black hole is made from warped space and time. "