Leonard Mlodinow Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but, for they play a critical role in shaping the way our conscious minds experience and respond to the world.”

“Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.”

“We all know that players will hit a few more home runs than usual in some years and a few less in others. But the mathematics of chance also predicts that some years they'll hit a lot more, and some years a lot less.”

“In physics, all can you do is predict the consequences of physical laws.”

“Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to physicists.”

“I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.”

“Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.”

“French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.”

“I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.”

“I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.”