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One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.
Michio Kaku
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Michio Kaku
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 24
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Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like? Then in the last phase of this transition people begin to realize, hey, I thought of it already - this is something that everyone can enjoy.
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They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.
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Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.
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There's the caveman in us. The caveman in you says, I want direct contact. I don't want a picture. The caveman in our body says once in a while, we have to go outside. We have to meet real people, talk to real people, and do real things.
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We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.
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It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.
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Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.
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[T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.
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I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.
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An event horizon, or the point of no return, is only a byproduct of the bending of space. However, electricity and magnetism, by themselves, have no event horizon. It gets complicated, however, if a black hole has charge, and then this new solution does have an event horizon.
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What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.
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We've done a miserable job of preparing people for today's world, let alone tomorrow's.
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