Michio Kaku Quotes

“Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.”

“However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. We all know individuals who did not fulfill the promise they showed in childhood. Many of them became haunted by the image of what they might have become. Instead of blaming fate, I think we should accept ourselves as we are and try to fulfill whatever dreams are within our capability.”

“Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”

“Before someone builds a "super-bad robot," someone has to build a "mildly bad robot," and before that a "not-so-bad robot.”

“For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.”

“Gossiping is essential for survival because the complex mechanics of social interactions are constantly changing, so we have to make sense of this ever-shifting social terrain.”

“Intelligence seems to be correlated with the complexity with which we can simulate future events.”

“It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay gratification.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

“The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.”

“Your cell phone today has more computer power than all of NASA when it put two men on the moon in 1969.”