Top 280 Michio Kaku Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In the beginning God said, the four-dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric, second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light, and it was good. And on the seventh day he rested.”

— Michio Kaku

2. “Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”

— Michio Kaku

3. “Impossible is relative.”

— Michio Kaku

4. “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

5. “Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.”

— Michio Kaku

6. “The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.”

— Michio Kaku

7. “In 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

8. “It’s pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you’re not doing anything.”

— Michio Kaku

9. “Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.”

— Michio Kaku

10. “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.”

— Michio Kaku

11. “Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.”

— Michio Kaku

12. “Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life.”

— Michio Kaku

13. “We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.”

— Michio Kaku

14. “In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.”

— Michio Kaku

15. “All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.”

— Michio Kaku

16. “To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.”

— Michio Kaku

17. “No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.”

— Michio Kaku

18. “You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software – you cannot mass-produce the human mind.”

— Michio Kaku

19. “The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that’s a compliment.”

— Michio Kaku

20. “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

21. “The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.”

— Michio Kaku

22. “Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.”

— Michio Kaku

23. “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

24. “Math is discovered. To be invented requires an inventor, but math exists outside of humanity. But ultimately, the laws of the universe will be reduced down to a single equation, perhaps no more than one inch long. But leaves the final question, where did that one inch equation come from?”

— Michio Kaku

25. “Some 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

26. “Cesium, iodine from the Chernobyl reactor accident went around the world many times and everyone on the Earth has a piece of Chernobyl in their bodies, but it’s very tiny – too small to cause much damage.”

— Michio Kaku

27. “I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.”

— Michio Kaku

28. “In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.”

— Michio Kaku

29. “Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology.”

— Michio Kaku

30. “It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.”

— Michio Kaku

31. “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.”

— Michio Kaku

32. “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

33. “In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.”

— Michio Kaku

34. “One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.”

— Michio Kaku

35. “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.”

— Michio Kaku

36. “Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.”

— Michio Kaku

37. “I’m not a science fiction writer, I’m a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.”

— Michio Kaku

38. “Robots may gradually attain a degree of ‘self-awareness’ and consciousness of their own.”

— Michio Kaku

39. “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.”

— Michio Kaku

40. “When we’re born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.”

— Michio Kaku

41. “I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.”

— Michio Kaku

42. “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

43. “There are dangers, but only dangers if people don’t understand where technology is taking us.”

— Michio Kaku

44. “To a physicist, we have the ‘I’ word, the I-word is ‘impossible.’ That’s dangerous.”

— Michio Kaku

45. “Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.”

— Michio Kaku

46. “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.”

— Michio Kaku

47. “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

48. “This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It’ll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe.”

— Michio Kaku

49. “Science is definitely part of America’s infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.”

— Michio Kaku

50. “I have nothing against investment banking, but it’s like massaging money rather than creating money.”

— Michio Kaku