Michio Kaku Quotes - Page 3

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• A soul might very well exist, but we, as physicists, try to measure and quantify everything. So far, no one has been able to create an experiment to do this for the soul. Efforts have been made to weigh the body after death, but each time we find no evidence of a soul. So a soul may very well exist, but it is not a testable theory.

  Michio Kaku

  Effort, Soul, Trying

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• The human mind has a desire to know its place in the universe and the role we play in the tapestry of life. This is actually hardwired into our brains, the desire the know our relationship to the universe. This was good for our evolution, since it enabled us to see our relationship to others and to nature which was good for our survival. And it is also what drives our curiosity to understand the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Play, Brain, Survival

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• In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

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  Proven

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• If you want to see a black hole tonight, tonight just look in the direction of Sagittarius, the constellation. That's the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and there's a raging black hole at the very center of that constellation that holds the galaxy together.

  Michio Kaku

  Black, Together, Looks

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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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.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Ice, Play

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• God throws dice, what can I say?

  Michio Kaku

  Dice

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• When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Shining, Want

  "Will America Ever Have Another ‘Sputnik Moment’?" by Barbara Hannah Grufferman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

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  Common Sense, Definitions, Revolution

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.7, OUP Oxford

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• Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. When we blink, we will go online. When we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking Chinese, into English with subtitles as they speak.

  Michio Kaku

  Chinese, Lenses, Cost

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us television, radio, microwaves, gave us the Internet, lasers, transistors, computers - all of that from physics.

  Michio Kaku

  Television, Radio, Lasers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Believe, Fall, Black

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

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  Years, Brain, Mind

  Michio Kaku (2014). “The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind”, p.11, Penguin UK

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• A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.

  Michio Kaku

  Intelligent, Acting, Consciousness

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science.

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  Children, Reading, Book

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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.

  Michio Kaku

  Brain, Robots, Century

  "Space elevators and smart machines: Life in the year 2100" by Michio Kaku, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Space, Odds, Survival

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• Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable. Robots are bad at pattern recognition and certainly at common sense. That's why computers can beat humans in chess but can't have even a basic conversation with a six-year-old.

  Michio Kaku

  Common Sense, Chess, Recognition

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the two nuclear forces, can be viewed, as music.

  Michio Kaku

  Simple, Ideas, Two

  "A universe in a nutshell: The physics of everything, with Michio Kaku". bigthink.com.

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• The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness. The origin of the universe is what I do for a living, working on string theory. But I am also fascinated by consciousness.

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  Ideas, Two, Consciousness

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Psychology, Brain

  "'It's all because of physics': an interview with Michio Kaku". Interview with Matt Fulkerson, www.theshorthorn.com. February 20, 2015.

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• I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

  Michio Kaku

  Creating, Banking, Investment

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• As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the movement of light and electrons through matter, the intricate molecular order which is the biological basis of life, must be met by the creation of a moral and political order which will accommodate these forces or we shall be destroyed. It will try our deepest resources of reason and compassion.

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  Stars, Compassion, Light

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• If you take a look at the most fantastic schemes that are considered impossible: teleportation, warp drive, parallel universes, other dimensions, artificial intelligence, ray guns, you realize that they can be possible if we advance technology a little bit.

  Michio Kaku

  Gun, Technology, Rays

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that our universe consists of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us. Some scientists sneer at the mention of higher dimensions because they cannot be conveniently measured in the laboratory.

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  Swimming, Thinking, Space

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• 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, but if that's all you do that's not science, science is about principles and concepts.

  Michio Kaku

  Flower, Principles, Helping

  "Michio Kaku and The Physics of the Future". Interview with Clayton Stearns, scriptphd.com. April 26, 2011.

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