Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

by Greg Keyes

That’s why so much effort has been put into convincing folks that the space program was a myth, a scam,

“Our children need to learn about this planet. Not tales of leaving it.”

As if the Earth existed without the sun, the planets, the stars, the rest of the universe. As if staring harder at the dirt would give them all the answers they needed.

“Heading out there is what I feel born to do, and it excites me. That doesn’t make it wrong.”

“Don’t trust the right thing, done for the wrong reason. The ‘why’ of a thing—that’s the foundation.”

“Time is relative,” Brand said. “It can stretch and squeeze—but it can’t run backward. The only thing that can move across the dimensions like time is gravity.”

Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.

the problem with gravity—trying to make the theory of relativity mesh with quantum theory. Both worked fine in describing the nature of the universe, each on a different scale—the very large in the case of relativity, and the very small in quantum theory. But held side by side they seemed contradictory.

Yet the universe was. It existed, and it worked. Somehow. So the apparent contradiction wasn’t in the physical world—it was the result of imperfect data, a wrong way of looking at things. Faulty equations based on mistaken assumptions.