"When I was 16 years old, I assembled……" — Michio Kaku
"When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage."
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112 Quotes by Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku has 112 quotes on this site.
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The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very…
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This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis…
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There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected…
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It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create…
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After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists…
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been…
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Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I…
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[T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.
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It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only…
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What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.
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I want to see us to explore outer space. But I want to do it safely, without the loss of…
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The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure…
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The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular…
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We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put…
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I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo…
— Leon M. Lederman
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Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became…
— Harold MacMillan
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If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed,…
— Mark Lynas
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This suntan lotion acts as an accelerator and an extender, meaning that this fire will burn brighter and longer.
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Well, I have many models of Prius that got recalled, but I have a new model that didn't get recalled.…
— Steve Wozniak
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Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the…
— S.G. Browne
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Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our…
— Robert W. Sarnoff
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Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling…
— Simon van der Meer
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During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you…
— Leon M. Lederman
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator…
— K D Lang
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