Michio Kaku Quotes

Bubbles are very simplified versions of some of the basic laws of the universe.

James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.

The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.

You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our technology.

The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for me he's a creature of the time, like the industrialists who started the Industrial Revolution who extricated themselves from their class and their background

Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

No one really understands quantum mechanics.