Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also important. It's a way to form bonds… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but,… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Every aspect of our lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious,… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“At the University of Bologna, there was another bizarre twist on what is the norm today: students fined their professors for unexcused absence or… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“The first step in battling the illusion of control is to be aware of if. But even then it is difficult, once we think… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“In fact, when some wedding guest inevitably complains about the seating arrangements, you might point out how long it would have taken you to… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
