Quotes from the book "Physics of the future"

Quotes from the book "Physics of the future" by Michio Kaku. This is really interesting forward looking book. here are some quotes that I loved from it.



Empires of the future will be empires of the mind - winston churchill

The future is already here. It's just unevenly distributed.

In 1899, Charles H. Duell, commissioner of the US office of patents said "Everything that can be invented has been invented"

In 1927, Harr M warner one of the founders of Warner Brothers, remarked during the era of silent movies, "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said in 1943, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers".

Four fundamental forces in nature that drive the entire univers.

  • Force of Gravity
  • Electromagnetic force
  • 3rd and 4th forces to be understood were the two nuclear forces the weak and strong forces.
Our wants, dreams, personalities, and desires have probably not changed much in 100,000 years.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it place two astronauts on the moon.

Common sense will be the currency of the future.

6,000 languages being spoken on earth, and 90% of them are expected to become extinct in the coming decades.

The first law of thermodynamics simply says that you can't get something for nothing.


Mahatma Gandhi once wrote: The Roots of Violence:

Wealth without work,

pleasure without conscience,

knowledge without character,

commerce without morality,

science without humanity,

worship without sacrifice,

politics without principles.


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