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Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science . He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku 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 the New York Times best sellers Physics of the Impossible , Physics of the Future , and The Future of the Mind .

Kaku has hosted several TV specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the Science Channel. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. January 1947   •   Other names Мичиу Каку
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Hyperspace
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The Future of Humanity
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Physics of the Future
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Famous Michio Kaku Quotes

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

Michio Kaku

Source: Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

“It is sometimes helpful to differentiate between the God of Miracles and the God of Order.”

Michio Kaku book Hyperspace

Source: Hyperspace (1995), Ch.15 Conclusion<!--pp.330-331-->
Context: It is sometimes helpful to differentiate between the God of Miracles and the God of Order. When scientists use the word God, they usually mean the God of Order.... The God of Miracles intervenes in our affairs, performs miracles, destroys wicked cities, smites enemy armies, drowns the Pharaoh's troops, and avenges the pure and noble.... This is not to say that miracles cannot happen, only that they are outside what is commonly called science.

“Maxwell's equations… originally consisted of eight equations. These equations are not "beautiful." They do not possess much symmetry. In their original form, they are ugly…. However, when rewritten using time as the fourth dimension, this rather awkward set of eight equations collapses into a single tensor equation. This is what a physicist calls "beauty," because both criteria are now satisfied.”

Michio Kaku book Hyperspace

Source: Hyperspace (1995), Ch.5 Quantum Heresy

“If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”

Michio Kaku

Source: Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

“There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually people will cherish a new commodity: wisdom.”

Michio Kaku book Physics of the Future

Source: Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Michio Kaku Quotes about God

“… the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace.”

Michio Kaku

Source: Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

“We actually have a candidate for the mind of God. The mind of God we believe is cosmic music, the music of strings resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace. That is the mind of God.”

Michio Kaku

Math is the Mind of God http://bigthink.com/dr-kakus-universe/math-is-the-mind-of-god?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bigthink%2Fblogs%2Fdr-kakus-universe+%28Dr.+Kaku%27s+Universe%29 (29 December 2012)

“If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.”

Michio Kaku

"Captain Michio and the World of Tomorrow" in The Wall Street Journal (9 March 2012) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203960804577239852155894014.html

Michio Kaku Quotes

“There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. … Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness... Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.”

Michio Kaku book Hyperspace

Hyperspace (1995)

Decision , Science

“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
Universe

“Mathematics… is the set of all possible self-consistent structures”

Michio Kaku book Hyperspace

Source: Hyperspace (1995), Ch.15 Conclusion<!--p.328-->
Context: Mathematics... is the set of all possible self-consistent structures, and there are vastly more logical structures than physical principles.

Mathematics

“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 book Hyperspace

Source: Hyperspace (1995), Ch.12 Colliding Universes

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

Michio Kaku

Source: The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

“For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.”

Michio Kaku

Source: The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

“I say looking at the next 100 years that there are two trends in the world today. The first trend is toward what we call a type one civilization, a planetary civilization… The danger is the transition between type zero and type one and that’s where we are today. We are a type zero civilization. We get our energy from dead plants, oil and coal. But if you get a calculator you can calculate when we will attain type one status. The answer is: in about 100 years we will become planetary. We’ll be able to harness all the energy output of the planet earth. We’ll play with the weather, earthquakes, volcanoes. Anything planetary we will play with. The danger period is now, because we still have the savagery. We still have all the passions. We have all the sectarian, fundamentalist ideas circulating around, but we also have nuclear weapons. …capable of wiping out life on earth. So I see two trends in the world today. The first trend is toward a multicultural, scientific, tolerant society and everywhere I go I see aspects of that birth. For example, what is the Internet? Many people have written about the Internet. Billions and billions of words written about the Internet, but to me as a physicist the Internet is the beginning of a type one telephone system, a planetary telephone system. So we’re privileged to be alive to witness the birth of type one technology… And what is the European Union? The European Union is the beginning of a type one economy. And how come these European countries, which have slaughtered each other ever since the ice melted 10,000 years ago, how come they have banded together, put aside their differences to create the European Union? …so we’re beginning to see the beginning of a type one economy as well…”

Michio Kaku

"Will Mankind Destroy Itself?" http://bigthink.com/videos/will-mankind-destroy-itself (29 September 2010)

Life , People , World , Idea

“When Physicists speak of "beauty" in their theories, they really mean that their theory possesses at least two essential features: 1. A unifying symmetry 2. The ability to explain vast amounts of experimental data with the most economical mathematical expressions.”

Michio Kaku book Hyperspace

Source: Hyperspace (1995), Ch.5 Quantum Heresy

Beauty , Mathematics

“Remarkably, only a handful of fundamental physical principles are sufficient to summarize most of modern physics.”

Michio Kaku book Hyperspace

Source: Hyperspace (1995), Ch.15 Conclusion

“Killer asteroids are nature's way of asking, 'How's that space program coming along?'”

Michio Kaku book The Future of Humanity

Anonymous

Headline quote at the beginning of Chapter 3, "Mining the Heavens," page 54.
The Future of Humanity (2018)

Way , Nature

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