American - Physicist | 1954 -
If memories were indeed like what a camera records, they could be forgotten, or they could fade so that they are no longer clear and vivid. But it would be difficult to explain how people could have memories that are both clear and vivid while also being wrong. Yet that happens, and it is not infrequent.
Leonard Mlodinow
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The attacks on global warming are no different than the attacks the cigarettes companies used to use to say that cigarettes don't cause cancer.
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Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.
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Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.
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Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
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Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
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We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.
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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.
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People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety or need.
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By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.
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I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in predicting the results of coin tosses, but there is expertise in predicting the behavior of lasers.
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When judging a product, we rarely have exhaustive scientific data to go by. As a result, if we are to form a complete picture, we must fill in the blanks, just as we must in our visual perception.
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