Michio Kaku Quotes

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

… to develop a plan to promote better science education

It is my idea that the public needs to be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry and how the scientific process works. I firmly believe that this is the only effective way forward to combat the widespread distrust in facts and science.

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

I'm not a library.

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.