Michio Kaku Quotes

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

We've done a miserable job of preparing people for today's world, let alone tomorrow's.

No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.

In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

In the future we'll be able to mentally contact anybody we want, see whatever image we want. And when we don't like it, we'll just turn it off.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology.

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.

Today's clunky smart glasses will be replaced by smart contact lenses. We'll command them by voice, blinking, or even thinking, to interact visually in 3-D with the Internet.

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.

A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?

The handsome and the beautiful may earn the admiration of society, but all the wondrous inventions of the future are a by-product of the unsung, anonymous scientists.

But if I make an observation, what is to determine which state I am in? This means that someone else has to observe me to collapse my wave function.

The universe is a symphony of strings. And the "Mind of God, " which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace.

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.

Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.