Jason Silva Quotes
Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.
Silva, Jason. "Radical Openness." TEDGlobal 2012, TED, Jun. 2012.
This was one of Robert Kennedy’s favorite quotes. Though his version is unique, the original idea comes from the book, Back to Methuselah. See George Bernard Shaw. {642128} The great American Scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, had expressed a variant of the idea in {639985} .
The Scientific Project that developed the Atomic Bomb. See Robert F. Kennedy {610136} for a later variant of this quotation.
Jason Luis Silva is a Venezuelan-American television personality, filmmaker, futurist, philosopher, and public speaker. He is known for hosting National Geographic documentaries: Brain Games and Origins. His goal is to use technology to excite people about philosophy and science. The Atlantic describes Silva as "A Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age". Silva, a former presenter on Current TV, lectures internationally on such topics as creativity, spirituality, technology and humanity, writes and produces short films, and co-hosts National Geographic's Brain Games.