01c. 1947 ADIn Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
02c. 1947 ADWe have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
03c. 1947 ADAlready from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
05c. 1947 ADOne 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.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
06c. 1947 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
07c. 1947 ADSooner 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.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
08c. 1947 ADMost Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will often cross the orbit of any Earth-like planet and fling it into outer space, making life impossible. But our Jupiter travels in a near-perfect circular orbit, preventing a collision with any Earth-like planet, making life possible.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
09c. 1947 ADIt'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.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
10c. 1947 ADOur astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
11c. 1947 ADUntil 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.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
12c. 1947 ADIf I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
13c. 1947 ADI have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. If you're in physics, you create inventions, you create lasers, you create transistors, computers, GPS.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
14c. 1947 ADI'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
15c. 1947 ADThe job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
16c. 1947 ADSome advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
17c. 1947 ADScience fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
18c. 1947 ADI believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
19c. 1947 ADEven if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
20c. 1947 ADIn string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the 'Mind of God' is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
21c. 1947 ADTo me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
22c. 1947 ADNo 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 / quote ↗
23c. 1947 ADI have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
24c. 1947 ADIn Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.Michio Kaku / quote ↗
