The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond

by Michio Kaku

In other words, science is about natural law, while religion is about ethics, and there is no conflict between them as long as one keeps this distinction in mind.

AI expert Hans Moravec has said, “Life may seem pointless if we are fated to spend it staring stupidly at our ultra-intelligent progeny as they try to describe their ever more spectacular discoveries in baby-talk that we can understand.”

A Type II civilization should be easy to find, because they are likely immortal.

the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

Inquantum mechanics, theuncertainty principle(also known asHeisenberg's uncertainty principle) is any of a variety ofmathematical inequalities[1]asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which the values for certain pairs of physical quantities of aparticle, known ascomplementary variablesor canonically conjugate variables such aspositionxandmomentump, can be predicted from initial conditions, or, depending on interpretation, to what extent such conjugate properties maintain their approximate meaning, as the mathematical framework of quantum physics does not support the notion of simultaneously well-defined conjugate properties expressed by a single value. The uncertainty principle implies that it is in general not possible to predict the value of a quantity with arbitrary certainty, even if all initial conditions are specified.