Michio Kaku Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.”

“One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.'”

“I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.”

“The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.”

“Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.”

“To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.”

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

“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.”

“In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.”

“I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.”