Top 280 Michio Kaku Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.”

— Michio Kaku

52. “Quantum entanglement allows you to send information faster than light, which upset Einstein. But Einstein has the last laugh. The information you send on quantum entanglement is random, useless information. So Einsein still has the last laugh.”

— Michio Kaku

53. “Some people are a little bit afraid about the future because they see all these gadgets and gizmos coming down the pike and they think they’re too old to learn all this new stuff. But eventually they begin to realize, ‘Hey, some of this stuff is useful.’”

— Michio Kaku

54. “Science is the engine of prosperity. All the prosperity we see around us is a byproduct of scientific inventions. And that’s not being made clear to young people. If we can’t make it clear to young people they’re not going to go into science. And science will suffer.”

— Michio Kaku

55. “However, one new theory says that dark matter may be ordinary matter in a parallel universe. If a galaxy is hovering above in another dimension, we would not be able to see it. It would be invisible, yet we would feel its gravity. Hence, it might explain dark matter.”

— Michio Kaku

56. “Our best shot at finding life in our solar system might be to look at the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mars, increasingly, looks like a dead planet. But the oceans beneath the ice cover of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn may actually have more liquid water than the oceans of Earth.”

— Michio Kaku

57. “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

58. “An event horizon, or the point of no return, is only a byproduct of the bending of space. However, electricity and magnetism, by themselves, have no event horizon. It gets complicated, however, if a black hole has charge, and then this new solution does have an event horizon.”

— Michio Kaku

59. “Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We’ll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We’ll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We’ll be able to modify life in the future.”

— Michio Kaku

60. “There’s the caveman in us. The caveman in you says, “I want direct contact. I don’t want a picture.” The caveman in our body says once in a while, we have to go outside. We have to meet real people, talk to real people, and do real things.”

— Michio Kaku

61. “We physicists know that the brain is a milliwatt transmitter of radio. We have computers that can decipher much of this gibberish coming from our brain and we could then use that to control computers.”

— Michio Kaku

62. “The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.”

— Michio Kaku

63. “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.”

— Michio Kaku

64. “We’re in ‘Jurassic Park’ territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we’ll have zoos for extinct animals.”

— Michio Kaku

65. “I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.”

— Michio Kaku

66. “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.”

— Michio Kaku

67. “So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That’s why I don’t mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.”

— Michio Kaku

68. “I would like to believe that crop circles are evidence of visitation. But there have been too many people who have admitted to creating these crop circles, and too many people who have shown how to make one on TV programs, so I have my doubts.”

— Michio Kaku

69. “I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program designing weapons ignited by hydrogen bombs. I didn’t want to do that. I thought about how many scientists had died in World War II.”

— Michio Kaku

70. “A hydrogen bomb, for me, was puny compared to the Big Bang – the creation of the universe. That’s what I really wanted to work on – the nature of the universe itself, and that’s what I do for a living.”

— Michio Kaku

71. “What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.”

— Michio Kaku

72. “God throws dice, what can I say?”

— Michio Kaku

73. “No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.”

— Michio Kaku

74. “We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.”

— Michio Kaku

75. “I hope we find evidence of dark matter in the lab and in outer space. This would go a long way to proving the correctness of string theory, which is what I do for a living. That is my day job. So string theory is a potentially experimentally verifiable theory.”

— Michio Kaku

76. “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

77. “A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.”

— Michio Kaku

78. “According to Einstein, there is no gravitational pull. The earth warps the space-time continuum around our bodies, so space itself pushes us down to the floor. Thus, it is the presence of matter that warps space around it, giving us the illusion that there is a gravitational force pulling on neighboring objects.”

— Michio Kaku

79. “When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.”

— Michio Kaku

80. “We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us.”

— Michio Kaku

81. “Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What’s not to like?”

— Michio Kaku

82. “In the future, you’ll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.”

— Michio Kaku

83. “Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don’t have coal, oil or hydro power.”

— Michio Kaku

84. “I 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

85. “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

86. “For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton’s laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton’s laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.”

— Michio Kaku

87. “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

88. “In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.”

— Michio Kaku

89. “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.”

— Michio Kaku

90. “Science is the engine of prosperity. But you’d never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They’re lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don’t create it.”

— Michio Kaku

91. “I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound of anything into near earth orbit. That is your weight in gold. It costs about $100,000 a pound to put you on the moon. And it costs $1,000,000 a pound to put you on Mars.”

— Michio Kaku

92. “Hover boards, unfortunately, currently violate the laws of physics. Supermagnets exist, but they have to be cooled to near absolute zero, and they are extremely expensive. So Michael J. Fox’s hover boards are not possible until we invent room temperature super conductors.”

— Michio Kaku

93. “Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.”

— Michio Kaku

94. “I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton’s theory of mechanics.”

— Michio Kaku

95. “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.”

— Michio Kaku

96. “Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What’s not to like? Then in the last phase of this transition people begin to realize, hey, I thought of it already – this is something that everyone can enjoy.”

— Michio Kaku

97. “The two greatest mysteries in all of nature are the mind and the universe.”

— Michio Kaku

98. “Just one supernova can temporarily outshine an entire galaxy of 100 billion stars.”

— Michio Kaku

99. “Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. – M. C. ESCHER.”

— Michio Kaku

100. “These parallel universes are not ghost worlds with an ephemeral existence; within each universe, we have the appearance of solid objects and concrete events as real and as objective as any.”

— Michio Kaku