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
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
Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form… — 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
I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. .… — 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
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
Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
