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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.

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

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It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.

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

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If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

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I do hope that 'Interstellar' and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science - and a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with.

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

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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.

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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.

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I think that the future of the human race is to spread through the universe, and now is the time that we should be laying the foundations for that.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: June 1st, 1940

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