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

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. …

- Jad Abumrad

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

- Jad Abumrad

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

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 …

- Jad Abumrad

Get comfortable with the idea that you won’t know what’s good until it’s already happened.

- Jad Abumrad

Continue to reinvent. Keep things moving and changing and growing and always a little bit out of reach.

- Jad Abumrad