“I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand so...” — Kip Thorne Quote

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.

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

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.

It's not easy for an artist, especially for a girl. But you know, you just have to work very hard, persist, trust what you have, your essence.

Gerrymandering at its essence is supposed to be used to reflect the changing geography to ensure representation. But we know that politics gets involved and it's used to benefit whoever's in control. That's the problem we have with gerrymandering.

In essence, I feel I'm more jazz guitar player because I write vehicles geared for improvisation.

To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there.