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This can be taken to mean that progress depends on tolerance for failure, not punishment for it. Kaku is arguing for a culture that treats mistakes as part of experimentation, because new ideas rarely arrive without missteps. It fits a team trying something uncertain, where people need room to test, fail, and try again without being pushed out at the first error.
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About Michio Kaku
American theoretical physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular science
Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and popular science writer. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. He has written several books on physics and related subjects, and he is a familiar presence in radio, television, and film. He also writes regularly for his own blog and for other popular media outlets. In 2021, he received the Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award for work that helped connect science and science fiction.
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Books by Michio Kaku
Physics of the Impossible
2008
The future of humanity
2018
The God Equation
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2012