Michio Kaku Quotes

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

To take intellectual risks is to think about something that can't be done, that doesn't make any sense, and go for it responsibly.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

It is so important for designers not to run scared, and not to be too worried about what's safe and what's commercial.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.

I feel it would be a huge mistake for 'Vogue' always to be completely tasteful, completely perfect. I think it's very important for us to also rock the boat.

I don't want to only make the movies that studios will greenlight.