122 Quotes by Leonard Mlodinow

Not too long ago, the man who was then the president of Iran was quoted as saying that Jews descended from monkeys and pigs.

Today we know that there are other solar systems only tens of light years away. Had the Golden Age continued unabated, we might by now have sent probes exploring them. We might have landed on the moon in the year 969 instead of 1969. We might have an understanding of space and life that is unimaginable to us today. Instead, events occurred that would delay the progress begun by the Greeks by a millennium.

Leipzig that the university had to pass a rule against throwing stones at professors.

Paleolithic humans migrated often, and, like my teenagers, they followed the food.

Pauli turned to the audience and argued, “Yes, my theory is crazy enough!” Then Bohr insisted, “No, your theory is not crazy enough!

One end of the spectrum of fantastical thinking is labeled “crackpot,” and the other “visionary.

It is dangerous to judge ability by short-term results.

Michael Jordan once said, “I’ve missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I’ve lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

The normal distribution describes the manner in which many phenomena vary around a central value that represents their most probable outcome;.