Author of quotes: Leonard Mlodinow

Personally, I Oh, how difficult to understand what I think my children, who have long been ten or even twenty, and they know how to talk. If I knew something, when they only know how that smile by making funny faces and drool? The truth is, if some time has stayed close to the baby, and really start to give it thought, based on his facial expression, but to confirm scientifically correct if your guess is difficult.

Not muscle mass, and the mighty skull strong people...

From the point of view of energy consumption the brain of modern man after the hearts of the most expensive organ in the body.

If recipes with veal in modern cookbooks began with the phrase "Catch and hammer calf", most people would prefer the recipes from the book "the Eggplant joy."

...Next time you are going to fight for half an hour waiting a table at your favorite restaurant, remember: to get food, your ancestors had to fight with stray swarms of ferocious hyenas.

The ability to peel one stone on the second is not very similar to dawn of the social and cultural revolution. Of course, the production of broken stone fades into the background of the invention of the light bulb, the Internet or chocolate chip cookies. But that was our first tiny step toward the realization that we can understand the nature and adapt it for their needs and relying on their brains: they can empower us with the power that complements and often exceeds the capabilities of our bodies.

Now most people are quite happy that their grandmother was a tail and she was eating insects. It's not just happy - I'm excited and fascinated our ancestors, history of our survival and the cultural revolution.

We, the people - maybe not the pinnacle of physical creation, however, is able to complement the instincts, intelligence and, most importantly for our purposes, to ask questions about their environment.

The desire to know, to think and to create, manifest for millennia, provided us with methods to survive and create for themselves a unique ecological niche.

We, the people, the only one who has the ability and desire to understand themselves and their world.

Science is the soul of today's technology, the root of modern civilization. It underlies many political, religious and moral principles, and considerations that serve as the Foundation of science, more and more rapidly transform society. As it is true that science plays a key role in the formation of a common device of the human mind, it is also true that features of human thought played a key role in the formation of our scientific theories.

...Our creativity clenched frameworks of habitual thinking, which grows out of beliefs that we can't reject or never questioned.

Pioneers of science - Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Darwin fought with the usual way of thinking of his time long and hard, and because their history is inevitable - a ballad about a personal struggle in which the stakes are sometimes equal to life itself.

Archimedes said, say, give him a foothold, and he will change the world; I believed that with a suitable household products, I'll blow it. That's the power of comprehension of the substances around us.