Michio Kaku Quotes

“Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.”

Made Soul Figures Devil Oil Unlimited Coal Bargains Unlimited Power Faust

Author:Michio Kaku

“Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. When we blink, we will go online. When we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking Chinese, into English with subtitles as they speak.”

Ifs Speak Internet Cost Paper Computer Contact Chinese Online Print Translate Biographies Lenses Chips Pennies Scrap Blink Subtitles Contact Lenses

Author:Michio Kaku

“We physicists know that the brain is a milliwatt transmitter of radio. We have computers that can decipher much of this gibberish coming from our brain and we could then use that to control computers.”

Knows Use Brain Computer Radio Physicist Decipher

Author:Michio Kaku

“Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like? Then in the last phase of this transition people begin to realize, hey, I thought of it already - this is something that everyone can enjoy.”

People Humans Body Lasts Enjoy Realizing Growing Hey Transition Organs Phases Extending

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“There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.”

People Ifs Technology Danger

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“I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.”

Fiction Scientist Science Fiction Physicist Laboratory Fiction Writers

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“I had two passions when I was a child. First was to learn about Einstein's theory and help to complete his dream of a unified theory of everything. That's my day job. I work in something called string theory. I'm one of the founders of the subject. We hope to complete Einstein's dream of a theory of everything.”

Firsts Children Two Helping Dream Jobs Passion Subjects Theory Strings Founders Unified Day Jobs String Theory

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“I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us television, radio, microwaves, gave us the Internet, lasers, transistors, computers - all of that from physics.”

Lasts Realizing Century Television Internet Computer Radio Physics Lasers Microwaves Transistors

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“Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.”

America Given Media Prosperity Engines Infrastructure Visibility

Author:Michio Kaku

“It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.”

Mean Nice Clean Desks Pointless Clean Desk

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

Impossible Dangerous Physicist

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“If you want to see a black hole tonight, tonight just look in the direction of Sagittarius, the constellation. That's the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and there's a raging black hole at the very center of that constellation that holds the galaxy together.”

Ifs Way Want Looks Together Black Rage Holes Tonight Galaxy Constellations Black Hole Milky Way Sagittarius

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“Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.”

Play Strings Melody Chemistry

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“Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.”

Humans Courses Activity Driving Global Warming Controversy Controversial Human Activity

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“I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.”

Believe Universe I Believe Multiverse

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“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.”

People Mind Real Play Helping Young Imagination Fiction Talking Roles Science Fiction

Author:Michio Kaku

“In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.”

Proven

Author:Michio Kaku

“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.”

Mean Internet March Smooth

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“Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.”

Knows Stories Fiction Science Fiction Heroism Sorcery

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“I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.”

Law Powerful Months Computer Assuming Christmas Toys Physicist Appliances Moore's Law

Author:Michio Kaku

“It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.”

Earth Dangerous Moon Connected Radiation Robots Astronaut Flare Solar Flares

Author:Michio Kaku

“When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.”

Years Millions Miles Pounds Steel Wire Particles Garage Electrons Translators Copper Beta Volt

Author:Michio Kaku

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

Ifs Years Humans Enough Next Energy Stars Human Beings Generations Mortgage Death Star

Author:Michio Kaku

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

Humans Body Growing Organs Extending

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

Creating Investment Banking Investment Banking

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“I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.”

Thinking Would Be Scientist Newton

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“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.”

Want Able Turns Contact

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“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.”

I Can Our Lives Imagine Genes Imagine That Chimpanzees Life Span

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

Matter Facts Beautiful Theory Proven Irritating

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“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.”

Years Names Talking One Day Scientist Died Tone Great Scientist

Author:Michio Kaku

“The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.”

Believe Courses Media Youth Claims Don't Believe Fountain Fountain Of Youth

Author:Michio Kaku

“We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.”

Ifs Animal Parks Territory Zoos Jurassic Park Extinct Animals

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“What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.”

Problem Law Impossible Physics Engineering Preventing Laws Of Physics Engineering Inspirational

Author:Michio Kaku

“When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.”

Knows Want Stars Born Sun Shining Sun Rise

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

Mind Humans Produce Mass Human Mind Software Hardware

Author:Michio Kaku

“Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart.”

Fall Levels Cutting Aging Errors Heal Cells Mechanism Falling Apart Cellular

Author:Michio Kaku

“Some people are a little bit afraid about the future because they see all these gadgets and gizmos coming down the pike and they think they're too old to learn all this new stuff. But eventually they begin to realize, 'Hey, some of this stuff is useful.'”

People Thinking Littles Stuff Bits Realizing Little Bit Hey Gadgets New Stuff

Author:Michio Kaku

“The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.”

May Reality Cases Worry Rivers Paradox Traveler Parallels Forks

Author:Michio Kaku

“A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.”

Littles Form Force Bits Difficult Fields Little Bit Gun Invisible Rays Bubbles Buttons Bullets Shields Blast Force Fields

Author:Michio Kaku

“For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.”

Feels Form Law Figures Particular Ice Relaxation Elegant Jumping Spinning Newton Skates Laws Of Motion Newton's Laws

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“Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.”

Today Fiction Scientist Science Fiction Historian Great Work Fiction Writers Clueless Sociologists Futurism

Author:Michio Kaku

“I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.”

Language Ability Effort Class I Realized Limitation Graduates Harvard Foreign Language

Author:Michio Kaku

“I used to watch the old 'Flash Gordon' series on TV, and it was thrilling to rocket to the planet Mongo every week. But after a while, I figured out that although Flash got the girl and all the accolades, it was really Dr. Zarkov who made the series work. Without Dr. Zarkov, there could be no Flash Gordon.”

Made Used Girl Watches Week Planets Tvs Series Flash Drs Thrilling Rockets Accolades Flash Gordon

Author:Michio Kaku

“I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science.”

Writing Children Made Book Reading Imagine Youth Grew Grew Up Research Incredibles Physics Physicist Theoretical

Author:Michio Kaku

“In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.”

Made Fiction Science Fiction Grades Scare Inherent Popcorn Science Fiction Movie

Author:Michio Kaku

“In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.”

Turns Car Internet Relax Pilots Turn-on

Author:Michio Kaku

“It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.”

Facts Science Century Theory Physics Quantum Quantum Physics Quantum Theory Astrophysics Going For It

Author:Michio Kaku

“No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.”

Ifs Knows Humans Brain Century Dangerous Late Approach Suspects 21st Century Robots Chips Human Intelligence

Author:Michio Kaku

“Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.”

Ifs Faces Space Planets Survival Threat Odds Sooner Or Later Dinosaurs Asteroids

Author:Michio Kaku

“Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.”

May Reality Light Universe Stars Technology Century Speed Faster Dimensions Time Travel Parallels Millennium Warp Speed Of Light Parallel Universe

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