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Science Quotes by Michio Kaku

73 Science quotes by Michio Kaku

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Michio Kaku describes science as a search for deep principles, not memorized facts. He is fascinated by the biggest mysteries—how the universe began and how consciousness arose—while noting that quantum gravity remains an unsolved puzzle. He also points out that physics often outstrips even the wildest science‑fiction ideas.

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I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

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

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

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In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

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In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

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Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun…

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[T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

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“Science, however, is never conducted as a popularity contest, but instead advances through testable, reproducible, and falsifiable theories.”

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You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces…

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

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A lot of the things you see in science fiction revolve around black holes because black holes are strong enough to rip…

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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.…

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We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and…

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It's inevitable that we'll have some form of designer children, fueled not just by the science but by parents' hard-wired desire to…

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Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate…

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“...the entire electromagnetic spectrum— from radar to TV, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, microwaves, and gamma rays— is nothing but…

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“The Pentagon has been looking into the possibility of developing “smart dust,” dust-sized particles that have tiny sensors inside that can be…

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It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say…

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We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because…

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The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin…

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“[On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.] Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero…

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For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the…

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“Ironically, the serious study of the impossible has frequently opened up rich and entirely unexpected domains of science. For example, over the…

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“Indeed, brain scans done by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis indicate that areas used to recall memories are the same…

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The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then…

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There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. .…

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“The real bottleneck is software. Creating software can be done only the old-fashioned way. A human -sitting quietly in a chair with…

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Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not…

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“(The string is extremely tiny, at the Planck length of 10 ^-33 cm, a billion billion times smaller than a proton, so…

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“Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are…

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

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They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo,

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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.

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I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the…

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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.

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Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

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The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science.

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Entire cities could sprout instantly in the desert, with skyscrapers made entirely of force fields

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“In making these predictions, I have had the invaluable assistance of scientists who graciously allowed me to interview them, broadcast their ideas…

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I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the…

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The best theory comes from string theory, which states that dark matter is nothing but a higher vibration of the string. We are, in…

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Consciousness-one level is understanding where we are in space. Consciousness two is where we understand our position in society: who's top dog, who's underdog…

It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past.…

A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing that your…

“I’m as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I’ll take it. —DANIEL HILL,…

Science is about principles. It's about concepts. It's not about memorizing the parts of a flower. It helps to know some of these things,…

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

“There are an estimated 100 billion neurons residing inside the skull with an exponential amount of neural connections”

“But on the question of whether the robots will eventually take over, he { Rodney A. Brooks } says that this will probably not…

The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness.…