Jad Abumrad famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Get comfortable with the idea that you wonâ€™t know whatâ€™s good until itâ€™s already happened.
-- Jad Abumrad

#Ideas
I have a weird sense that people ten years younger than me don't own a radio, or maybe they own a radio, but they don't call it a radio.
-- Jad Abumrad

#Years #People #Radio
You will find scientists who will tell you â€” and they deeply believe it â€” that weâ€™re quantifiable. We are knowable. That if I can take a high enough resolution picture of all of you â€” not just your outsides, but your genes, your DNA, all the way down to your atoms â€” I can know everything about you and everything that you will be. There are people who believe this. And what this tells me is, no. No! All the way down, to the bottom of our thoughts, thereâ€™s just more mystery.
-- Jad Abumrad

#Believe #Dna #People
Continue to reinvent. Keep things moving and changing and growing and always a little bit out of reach.
-- Jad Abumrad

#Moving #Growing #Littles
There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.
-- Jad Abumrad

#Canyons #Grand Canyon #Explanation
Therein lies the rub of a place like Berkeley Bowl. You get seduced by an 11-pound apple that turns out to be a fake watermelon with an anus.
-- Jad Abumrad

#Lying #Apples #Fake
For some reason, that I canâ€™t really explain, at the beginning of Radiolab, it always felt like life or death. Even though it was just a radio show. Even though no one was listening. And I am not quite sure whyâ€¦ but it may have to do with that radical uncertainty you feel when you are trying to work without a template.
-- Jad Abumrad

#Listening #Trying #May
For some reason, that I can’t really explain, at the beginning of Radiolab, it always felt like life or death. Even though it was just a radio show. Even though no one was listening. And I am not quite sure why… but it may have to do with that radical uncertainty you feel when you are trying to work without a template.
-- Jad Abumrad

#Listening #Trying #May

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israelâ€™s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

Jad Abumrad famous quotes

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