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Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

We have emotions for a reason; for instance, imagine pain. You have pain so that if you touch something that's hot, or if you slam your hand with a hammer, you will pull your hand away and not do that again.

Leonard Mlodinow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1954

Topics

Pain You Emotions Will Hand Hot

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

Amartya Sen

I Am Economics Philosophy Two Fields

Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.

Steve King

Mother Justice Me Law Equal Point

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

Sigmar Gabriel

Good Democracy Financial End Wall

Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life.

Robert Winston

Life Child You Important Most Thing

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

Mickey Spillane

Me You Look Salt Mine Stuff

When I did that '3 Days of Normal' one, we had no budget, and we were all staying in a house in New Hampshire. There's no trailers, and it's just a family environment. There's not much of a crew; you just do what you need to do.

Mircea Monroe

Family Budget Environment You House

I believe health care is a civil right.

Dennis Kucinich

Health Believe Care I Believe Right

I need complete silence when I write.

Chris Bohjalian

Silence Write Need Complete I Write

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

Bode Miller

Point Pretty Low Rush Adrenaline

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

William Golding

Patience Sea Sails Nile Must Who

Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Forward March Movement Clearly Up

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

Man Silence Listen Wonderful