Michio Kaku Quotes

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?

I'm, like, not a science person at all.

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

Understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits.

I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.

life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.

We understand through resemblance.

The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.

Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles.

SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life.

I'm different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I'm thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They're not different.

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.