I've always loved science, as far back as I can remember. I was very, very curious about how everything worked: the world,… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Of course our feelings matter. But emotional decisions are usually not the best ones. On the other hand, your emotions can affect… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
We perceive, we remember our experiences, we make judgments, we act - and in all of these endeavors, we are influenced by… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
People spend a lot of time talking and thinking about how members of the opposite sex look, but very little time paying… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
When judging a product, we rarely have exhaustive scientific data to go by. As a result, if we are to form a… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological… — 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
Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever… — 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
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
Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which… — 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
