Jason Silva Quotes

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

The essence of scientific genius is to question what the rest of us take for granted.

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

The way creative people live is different from people who don't do anything creative.

I tend to gravitate toward people who are a bit more eccentric and creative and artistic in some ways. And I like bringing disparate kinds of creative people together to create some great work, even to share points of view on a new direction.

When someone intelligent comes around, and looks at life around football in a different way, it can be alien.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.