Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

- Leonard Mlodinow

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a …

- Leonard Mlodinow

Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

- Leonard Mlodinow

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

- Leonard Mlodinow

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

- Leonard Mlodinow

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

- Leonard Mlodinow

We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often n…

- Leonard Mlodinow

Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in …

- Leonard Mlodinow

We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitabil…

- Leonard Mlodinow