Entire cities could sprout instantly in the desert, with skyscrapers made entirely of force fields — 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
I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the… — 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
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers. — 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
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
This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Science is the engine of prosperity. All the prosperity we see around us is a byproduct of scientific inventions. And that's not… — 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… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic… — 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
Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Climate change is the 800-pound gorilla in the living room that the media dances around. But in the scientific community, it's a… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront 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
“In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although… — 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
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
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
I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“(The string is extremely tiny, at the Planck length of 10 ^-33 cm, a billion billion times smaller than a proton, so… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media. — 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
[T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun… — 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
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more. — 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
“Science, however, is never conducted as a popularity contest, but instead advances through testable, reproducible, and falsifiable theories.” — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow… — 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