Michio Kaku quotes - page 2

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)
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it. View quote
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I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes. View quote
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In science, nothing is ever 100% proven. View quote
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Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media. View quote
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When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating. View quote
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Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star. View quote
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No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. View quote
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No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts. View quote
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In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees. View quote
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Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars. (Michio Kaku)
It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth. View quote
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Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that. View quote
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To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous. View quote
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Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless. View quote
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I used to watch the old 'Flash Gordon' series on TV, and it was thrilling to rocket to the planet Mongo every week. But after a while, I figured out that although Flash got the girl and all the accolades, it was really Dr. Zarkov who made the series work. Without Dr. Zarkov, there could be no Flash Gordon. View quote
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I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate. View quote
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You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this. View quote
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Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language. View quote
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One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us. View quote
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The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space. (Michio Kaku)
Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them. View quote
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Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings. View quote
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Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart. View quote
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It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything. View quote
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