Jad Abumrad quotes
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“Get comfortable with the idea that you won’t know what’s good until it’s already happened.”
-- Jad AbumradSource : "Jad Abumrad" by Sydney Lewis, transom.org. July 26, 2012.
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“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 AbumradSource : "'The Safest Place To Be Is Always Halfway Into Your Future.' - An Interview with Radiolab". Interview with Robert Krulwich, logger.believermag.com. August 2, 2013.
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“You will find scientists who will tell you — and they deeply believe it — that we’re quantifiable. We are knowable. That if I can take a high enough resolution picture of all of you — not just your outsides, but your genes, your DNA, all the way down to your atoms — 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, there’s just more mystery.”
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“Continue to reinvent. Keep things moving and changing and growing and always a little bit out of reach.”
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“There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.”
-- Jad AbumradSource : "Transom Manifesto" by Jad Abumrad, transom.org. July 26, 2012.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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“A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.”
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Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.7, Courier Corporation
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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