Top 280 Michio Kaku Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron.”

— Michio Kaku

252. “The Fate of the Earth, points.”

— Michio Kaku

253. “If time travel is possible, then where are the tourists from the future? –STEPHEN HAWKING.”

— Michio Kaku

254. “One reason why childhood lasts so long is because there is so much subtle information to absorb about human society and the natural world.”

— Michio Kaku

255. “The 3-D printers of the future might be able to re-create the delicate tissues that constitute functioning organs or the machine parts necessary to make a self-replicating robot.”

— Michio Kaku

256. “Recently a promising chemical called resveratrol has been isolated. Resveratrol, found in red wine, helps to activate the sirtuin molecule, which has been shown to slow down the oxidation process, a principle component in aging, and therefore it may help protect the body from age-related molecular damage.”

— Michio Kaku

257. “In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true. Emotions and feelings may well be nonverbal and universal, so that one could telepathically send them to anyone, but rational thinking is so closely tied to language that it is very unlikely that complex thoughts could be sent across language barriers. Words will still be sent telepathically in their original language.”

— Michio Kaku

258. “If we are right, big bangs are taking place even as you read this sentence.”

— Michio Kaku

259. “Clearly, invisibility is a property that arises at the atomic level, via Maxwell’s equations, and hence would be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to duplicate using ordinary means. To make Harry Potter invisible, one would have to liquefy him, boil him to create steam, crystallize him, heat him again, and then cool him, all of which would be quite difficult to accomplish, even for a wizard.”

— Michio Kaku

260. “The final answer was actually given by Edgar Allan Poe in 1848. Being an amateur astronomer, he was fascinated by the paradox and said that the night sky is black because, if we travel back in time far enough, we eventually encounter a cutoff – that is, a beginning to the universe. In other words, the night sky is black because the universe has a finite age.”

— Michio Kaku

261. “In fact, this spaghettification becomes so severe that even the atoms of your body get pulled apart and eventually disintegrate. To someone watching this remarkable event.”

— Michio Kaku

262. “A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.”

— Michio Kaku

263. “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right. – LARRY NIVEN.”

— Michio Kaku

264. “Si una idea no parece absurda de entrada, pocas esperanzas hay para ella. ALBERT EINSTEIN.”

— Michio Kaku

265. “One of the most beautiful photographs of a galactic black hole is the one taken by the Hubble space telescope of the galaxy NGC 4261.”

— Michio Kaku

266. “Animals cannot speak and understand English.”

— Michio Kaku

267. “But Planck would always reassure Einstein. He would write, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because the opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

— Michio Kaku

268. “As the great biologist Thomas H. Huxley said in 1863, “The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man’s place in Nature and his relation to the Cosmos.”

— Michio Kaku

269. “Unfortunately, with the collapse of classical civilization, these philosophical discussions and debates were lost. The concept that there could be a paradigm explaining the universe was forgotten for almost a thousand years. Darkness spread over the Western world, and scientific inquiry was largely replaced by belief in superstition, magic, and sorcery.”

— Michio Kaku

270. “Dr. Gazzaniga concludes, “It is the left hemisphere that engages in the human tendency to find order in chaos, that tries to fit everything into a story and put it into a context. It seems that it is driven to hypothesize about the structure of the world even in the face of evidence that no pattern exists.”

— Michio Kaku

271. “Likewise, even life on Earth seems to violate the second law, because it takes just nine months to convert hamburgers and french fries into a baby, which truly is a miracle.”

— Michio Kaku

272. “Number 1: I calls ’em like I see ’em. Number 2: I calls ’em the way they are. Number 3: They ain’t nothing till I calls.”

— Michio Kaku

273. “Speculation is never a waste of time. It clears away the deadwood in the thickets of deduction. – ELIZABETH PETERS.”

— Michio Kaku

274. “If you take 200 voxels in this area, and look at which of them are active and which are inactive, you can construct a machine-learning device that decodes which number is being held in memory.”

— Michio Kaku

275. “It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labor and double its produce; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard.”

— Michio Kaku

276. “Third is Omega, the relative density of the universe. If Omega were too small, then the universe would have expanded and cooled too fast.”

— Michio Kaku

277. “Every year, new uses for deep brain stimulation are being found. In fact, nearly all the major disorders of the brain are being reexamined in light of this and other new brain-scanning technologies. This promises to be an exciting new area for diagnosing and even treating illnesses.”

— Michio Kaku

278. “The essence of humor is when our simulation of the future is suddenly disrupted in surprising ways.”

— Michio Kaku

279. “Theoretical evidence is mounting to support the existence of the multiverse, in which entire universes continually sprout or “bud” off other universes. If true, it would unify two of the great religious mythologies, Genesis and Nirvana. Genesis would take place continually within the fabric of timeless Nirvana.”

— Michio Kaku

280. “Fifth is Q, the amplitude of the irregularities in the cosmic microwave background, which equals 10.”

— Michio Kaku

281. “Safeguards already exist against the release of such a dangerous virus, but steps must be taken to further strengthen them and add new layers of security. In particular, if a new virus suddenly erupts in some distant place on Earth, scientists must strengthen rapid-response teams that can isolate the virus in the wild, sequence its genes, and then quickly prepare a vaccine to prevent its spread.”

— Michio Kaku

282. “The material world may come and go, but consciousness remains as the defining element, which means that consciousness, in some sense, creates reality.”

— Michio Kaku

283. “Olaf Stapledon’s classic work of science fiction, Star Maker:.”

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284. “The gentlemen in Berlin are gambling on me as if I were a prize hen. As for myself, I don’t even know whether I’m going to lay another egg.”

— Michio Kaku

285. “The corollary to the Cave Man Principle is that if you want to predict the social interactions of humans in the future, simply imagine our social interactions 100,000 years ago and multiply by a billion. This means there will be a premium placed on gossip, social networking, and entertainment.”

— Michio Kaku

286. “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulations, stands mainly in need of freedom.”

— Michio Kaku

287. “By mentally activating the power source, you can grab lightsabers from across the room with today’s technology.”

— Michio Kaku

288. “Scientists can now instantly determine how certain parts of the brain are hooked up with other parts.”

— Michio Kaku