Born Quote by Kip Thorne

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

— Kip Thorne

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…

— Kip Thorne

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

— Kip Thorne

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…

— Kip Thorne

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

— Kip Thorne

I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make…

— Kip Thorne

I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the…

— Kip Thorne

Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether…

— Kip Thorne

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

— Kip Thorne

Wormholes - if you don't have something threading through them to hold them open, the walls will basically collapse so fast that nothing can…

— Kip Thorne

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…

— Kip Thorne

A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so…

— Kip Thorne