Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
Michio Kakuis a Japanese American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science. Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. He has written several books about physics and related topics, has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film, and writes online blogs and articles. He has written three New York Times best sellers: Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future, and The Future of the Mind. Kaku has...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth24 January 1947
CitySan Jose, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.
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.
Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.
Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.
... each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes its complex motions in space-time by splitting and recombining, a large number of highly sophisticated mathematical identities must be satisfied. These are precisely the mathematical identities discovered by Ramanujan.
Impossible is relative.
You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.
Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.
To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.
Already 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.
Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.
In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.