Earth Quote by Kip Thorne

Many of us on the project were thinking if we ever saw a gravitational wave, it'd be an itsy bitsy little tiny thing; we'd…

— Rainer Weiss

The obvious thing to me was, let's take freely floating masses in space and measure the time it takes light to travel between them.…

— Rainer Weiss

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

— Stephen Hawking

It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the knowledge, through…

— Rainer Weiss

Space is much stiffer than you imagine; it's stiffer than a gigantic piece of iron. That's why it's taken so damned long to detect…

— Rainer Weiss

I thought that there must be an easier way to explain how a gravitational wave interacts with matter: If one just looked at the…

— Rainer Weiss

We can see every square metre of the planet on Google Earth. But there is no substitute for that sensory experience of going out…

— Tim Cope

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

— Max Planck

You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Sometimes in astronomy, a heavenly body has been virtually invisible until a single observer detects its presence and points it out to his colleagues,…

— Marilyn Ferguson

A gravitational wave is a very slight stretching in one dimension. If there's a gravitational wave traveling towards you, you get a stretch in…

— Rainer Weiss

Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on objects no matter how far they are separated from each other.

— Francois Englert