Quotes by Michio Kaku

Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will often cross the orbit of any Earth-like planet and fling it into outer space, making life impossible. But our Jupiter travels in a near-perfect circular orbit, preventing a collision with any Earth-like planet, making life possible.

Its very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where theres radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. Itd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

If I wasnt a professional scientist, Id be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

I have nothing against investment banking, but its like massaging money rather than creating money. If youre in physics, you create inventions, you create lasers, you create transistors, computers, GPS.

Im a physicist, and we have something called Moores Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.

The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

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

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, its the wealth that comes from science.

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.

In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the Mind of God is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace.

To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.

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.

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.

In Einsteins equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.

When you look at the calculation, its amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, youve pushed Einsteins theory to the very limits where quantum effects must dominate. Thats telling us that you really need a theory of everything to resolve this question. And the only candidate is string theory.

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

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.