Michio Kaku Quotes About Science Fiction

Quotes about: Science Fiction

• So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

  Michio Kaku

  Real, Talking, Play

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

• We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because it sounds undignified. But when we were children, that's when we got interested in science, for a lot of us.

  Michio Kaku

  Children, Hate, Sound

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

  Michio Kaku

  Engineering, Fiction, Fantasy

  'The Super Power IssueA User’s Guide to Time Travel" by Michio Kaku, www.wired.com. August 1, 2003.

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

  Michio Kaku

  Sorcery, Heroism, Fiction

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

• 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.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Space, Fiction

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2009.

• 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.

  Michio Kaku

  Distance, Thinking, Fiction

• 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.

  Michio Kaku

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Force

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

  Michio Kaku

  Fiction, Scientist, Physicist

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Michio Kaku

  Clueless, Fiction, Today

• 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.

  Michio Kaku

  Scare, Popcorn, Fiction

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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