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
In the future we'll be able to mentally contact anybody we want, see whatever image we want. And when we don't like… — 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
In the future, the Internet might become a 'brain net' where we send memories, feelings and sensations. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since… — 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
We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Cancer is like the common cold; there are so many different types. In the future we'll still have cancer, but we'll detect… — 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
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
“(However, animals apparently dream differently than we do. In the dolphin, for example, only one hemisphere at a time sleeps in order… — 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… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you've pushed Einstein's… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we… — 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,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“If we can somehow control the probability of certain improbable events, then anything, including faster-than-light travel, and even time travel, is possible.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“most religions adhere to some form of determinism and predestination. Since God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, He knows the future, and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“This means that, in some sense, free will is a fake. Decisions are made ahead of time by the brain, without the… — 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
“Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask children why they like to play,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Consciousness, there are about 20,000 papers on consciousness with no consensus. Nowhere in history have so many people devoted so much time… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax… — 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
“Studies have shown that retaining memories can be improved by getting sufficient sleep between the time of activity and a test. Neuroimaging… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Indeed, brain scans done by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis indicate that areas used to recall memories are the same… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
You see, I'm also a futurist. I dream about the world 50, 100, maybe even 1,000 years in the future. But I… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Some people are a little bit afraid about the future because they see all these gadgets and gizmos coming down the pike… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
What differentiates human from lower-animal consciousness is time. You can't explain the concept of "tomorrow" to your dog. Our consciousness is dominated… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“For any reasonable value of Omega at the beginning of time, Einstein’s equations show that it should almost be zero today. For… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything 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
