Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

I loved everything. I loved sciences and I loved humanities. But ultimately, I felt that in the humanities, you know, you're writing about things that already exist. But in the sciences, you're discovering things that no one has known before. Ultimately I chose psychology because it seemed to combine science with things that I liked to think about.

Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

I don't believe in psychology.

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.