Michio Kaku Quotes

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed.

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat.

I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

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

Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

Manchester has always been a massively innovative city, loads of great scientific findings have come from Manchester. The first computer in the world was there and took up a whole building. So Manchester has always been very innovative.

The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

Creativity is the art of the impossible