Michio Kaku
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"Michio Kaku" is an American communicator and popular science/popularizer of science, futurist, theoretical physicist, and Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York. He has written several books about physics and related topics, has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film, and writes extensive online blogs and articles. He has written three The New York Times Best Seller list/New York Times Best Sellers: Physics of the Impossible (2008), Physics of the Future (2011), and The Future of the Mind (2014).

Kaku has hosted several TV specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History (TV channel)/History Channel, and the Science Channel.

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Saturn is not going away, ... Neither are the planets. What's the rush? Why not delay our space probes a bit, make them smaller and more sophisticated and use solar power?

Cassini will probably execute a flawless mission around the Earth if it can make the last hurdle through 8,000 pieces of 'space junk' surrounding the Earth.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

In the history of our intellectual development this will represent the crowning achievement of 2,000 years of investigation into the nature of matter -- space and time.

I think he is as close as you are going to get to a living Albert Einstein today.

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

The Air Force is to be applauded for investigating technologies that may have value for national security, ... But wormholes, negative energies, warped space-time, etc., require futuristic technologies centuries to millions of years ahead of ours. The only thing going down the wormhole is taxpayers' money.

There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness.