Michio Kaku Quotes

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

The further backward we look, the further forward we are likely to see.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

From my youth, I'd never stopped thinking in the future tense.

There is no formula that will guarantee success in forecasting, no magic words that will part the clouds. The real problem, as the old saw puts it, is that the future lies ahead.

I distinctly remember being very young, sixth grade maybe, and being at a party and hearing the mothers discuss the children. And the mothers said, 'Well, it's very clear who's the leader in the group.' And they were talking about me!

I'd love to know what the future looks like.

I like to plan. I like to see the future.

If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.