44 Quotes by Kip Thorne

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.

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

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 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.

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

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 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.