Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

by Greg Keyes

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.

“Scientists, explorers,” she had said. “That’s what I love. Out there we face great odds. Death. But not evil.”

But it was still hard to watch from safety as someone else paid her bills.

Space required a certain parsimony of thought. Something was either useful, or it was dead weight, and if it was dead weight you dropped it.

hold terror in one hand and wonder in the other