In physics, all can you do is predict the consequences of physical laws. — 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
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
You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Whatever I've worked on, I've always tried to make my writing personal. I think that's what makes my books somewhat different from… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate… — 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
We have emotions for a reason; for instance, imagine pain. You have pain so that if you touch something that's hot, or… — 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
