We need an enduring, robust theory of education. Now, it seems education careens from one fad to another and often back again.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
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… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“...the entire electromagnetic spectrum— from radar to TV, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, microwaves, and gamma rays— is nothing but… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The Pentagon has been looking into the possibility of developing “smart dust,” dust-sized particles that have tiny sensors inside that can be… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny… — 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
We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because… — 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
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
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
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200… — 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
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
“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
I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. — Michio Kaku Copy Share
I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics. — Michio Kaku Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“There are an estimated 100 billion neurons residing inside the skull with an exponential amount of neural connections” — Michio Kaku Copy Share
“But on the question of whether the robots will eventually take over, he { Rodney A. Brooks } says that this will probably not… — Michio Kaku Copy Share
The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share