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" 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. "

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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. "

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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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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" When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" As a true scientist, I have been proved wrong so many times that I'm very humble. "

" Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what we're dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity. "

" 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. "