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
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
The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be… — 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 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
Years ago, I picked up figure skating. How hard could spins and jumps be, I thought? It's just applied Newtonian physics. After… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The most likely possibility, favored by current data, is that the universe will die in Ice, not Fire. However, personally I believe… — 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
When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got… — 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
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
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
“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