Fiction Quotes by Michio Kaku

14 Fiction quotes by Michio Kaku

Kaku bridges physics and narrative, and even a short set of fourteen quotes reveals his belief that fiction fuels the next scientific leap. It’s a quick read for anyone who sees stories as a launchpad for discovery.

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

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

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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…

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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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So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It…

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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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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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Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be…

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Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping…

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Having a super-brain does not suddenly make you a dictator of the world. So we don't have to fear the scenarios of…

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For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I…

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In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy…

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I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound…

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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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