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Michio Kaku (/ˈmiːtʃioʊ ˈkɑːkuː/; born 24 January 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science. He is 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 three New York Times best sellers: Physics of the Impossible (2008), Physics of the Future (2011), and The Future of the Mind (2014). Kaku has hosted several TV specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the Science Channel.

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When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Born, Shine, Shining, Stars, Want

What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.

Past, Seashore, Shifting, Spun, Way, Would Be

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.

Blessed, Divine, Giving, Life, People

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.

Actually, Media, Sense, Waste, Watches

It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the distance between a Type 0 and a Type III civilisation - a factor of 100 billion billion, in fact. Yet we have such a highly regarded view of ourselves, we believe a Type III civilisation would find us irresistible and would rush to make contact with us. The truth is, however, they may be as interested in communicating with humans as we are keen to communicate with ants.

Believe, Billion, Communication, Distance, Gulf, Realise

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

100, Nothing, Proven, Science

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.

Billion, Half, Night, Sky, Stars

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.

Hydrogen, Program, Science, Stars, War, Work

It would be great if we had our own personal force fields. Just imagine creating your own architecture in your room. Buildings. You wouldn't have to spend all that time saving your money for that second house. You'd simply push a button and have as many houses as you want.

Buildings, Creating, Force, Force Fields, House, Personal

One theory is that the universe came from nothing. i. e. perhaps bubble-universes collided, as in a bubble bath, and gave birth to the universe. Or perhaps the big bang was created by a bubble-universe which split into two universes. The universe does seem to be compatible with nothing.

Bangs, Birth, Created, Doe, Theory, Two

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

Clueless, Fiction, Scientists, Today

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

Lived, Newton, Scientist, Think, Thinking, Would Be

Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.

Attain, Degree, Degrees, Robots, Self

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.

Flower, Helping, Helps, Principles

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.

Copper, Garage, Steel, Wire, Years

For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature. The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.

Active, Beautiful, Human, Opening Up, Science, Transition

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.

Byproduct, People, Prosperity, Scientific, See, Suffering

Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that adults might frown on the idea of multiply connected spaces, he wrote the book under a pseudonym and wrote it for children. His name was Charles Dodgson, his pseudonym was Lewis Carroll, and the book was Through The Looking Glass.

Adults, Book, Children, Dodgson, Ideas, Oxford

Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.

Behaviorism, Brain, Flows, Psychology, Testable, Thinking

‎By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.

Become, Destiny, Magic, Nanotechnology, Science, Tools

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