5 Quotes & Sayings By Kip S Thorne

Kip S. Thorne is a theoretical physicist and his research focuses on the theoretical study of gravitation. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a senior scientist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His research work has been recognized by many prestigious awards including the National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Dirac Medal of the international Center for Theoretical Physics, and a MacArthur Fellowship Read more

Thorne was an invited speaker at the 2009 TED conference where he discussed "Why Gravity?"

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Everything is drawn inexorably toward the future. Kip S. Thorne
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The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second. Kip S. Thorne
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We humans are confined to our brane. Kip S. Thorne
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Some segments of this book may be rough going. That's the nature of real science. It requires thought. Sometimes deep thought. But thinking can be rewarding. You can just skip the rough parts, or you can struggle to understand. Kip S. Thorne