Leonard Mlodinow

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.