Michio Kaku Quotes

My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

So I decided on science when I was in college.

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

Science is my passion; politics, my duty.

Physics is not a religion. If it were, we’d have a much easier time raising money.

If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it.

The idea [of the Quantum Computer] is to create a machine that is as intelligence as humans, and probably much more so.