A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.
Michio KakuScience is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.
Michio KakuScience fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
Michio KakuThe most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.
Michio KakuWe're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.
Michio Kaku