Michio Kaku Fiction Quotations

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

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.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Having a super-brain does not suddenly make you a dictator of the world. So we don't have to fear the scenarios of science fiction where the Lex Luthors of the world take over. People with exceptional ability, they don't become politicians; they don't become multi-millionaires; some of them just become professors like me, making a measly income.

In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.