Science is about principles. It's about concepts. It's not about memorizing the parts of a flower. It helps to know some of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“[On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.] Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
A lot of the things you see in science fiction revolve around black holes because black holes are strong enough to rip… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo, — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Having a super-brain does not suddenly make you a dictator of the world. So we don't have to fear the scenarios of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings—what we sometimes call “mind”—are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If space is a fabric, then of course fabrics can have ripples, which we have now seen directly. But fabrics can also rip. Then… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The best theory comes from string theory, which states that dark matter is nothing but a higher vibration of the string. We are, in… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
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. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
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… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
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… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“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,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
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,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
