Michio Kaku Quotes

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

There are many levels of truth.

A hair divides what is false and true.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

… a world without certainty can be richer, in all senses of the word, than a world with false convictions.

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

The world divides into facts.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

Reality has always had too many heads.

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

Reality is the completion of experience.

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.