447 Quotes by Michio Kaku

Science and technology are the engines of prosperity. Of course, one is free to ignore science and technology, but only at your peril. The world does not stand still because you are reading a religious text. If you do not master the latest in science and technology, then your competitors will.

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.

What we usually consider are impossible are simply engineering problems ... there's no law of physics preventing them

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to sing for our supper. ... The Cold War is over. You can't simply say “Russia!” to Congress, and they whip out their checkbook and say, “How much?” We have to tell the people why this atom-smasher is going to benefit their lives.

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

كل ماهو غير مستحيل فهو ممكن

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

Science, however, is never conducted as a popularity contest, but instead advances through testable, reproducible, and falsifiable theories.

Humanity is like someone whose outstretched arms are reaching for the stars but whose feet are mired in the mud.