Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

by Greg Keyes

“After that, with surrogacy, the growth becomes exponential. Within thirty years, we might have a colony of hundreds. The real difficulty of colonization is genetic diversity.”

This world’s a treasure, Donald. But she’s been telling us to leave for a while now. Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”

In space, distance was time, and time was distance.

“It gets to me, Coop,” Romilly admitted. “This tin can. Radiation, vacuum outside—everything wants us dead. We’re just not supposed to be here.”

According to Romilly, folding space a trillion light years would yield no longer a journey than folding it ten miles. But the distance after the fold— That was real.

“they’re creatures of at least five dimensions. To them the past might be a canyon they can climb into, and the future a mountain they can climb up. But to us it’s not. Okay?”

“Evolution has yet to transcend that simple barrier—we can care deeply, selflessly for people we know, but our empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.”

“Newton’s third law,” Tars put in. “The only way humans have ever figured out of getting somewhere is to leave something behind.”