--- title: "4 Awe Quotes By Jason Silva" description: "4 Awe quotes by Jason Silva. Plus more from Jason Silva and more Awe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/546/jason-silva-8140_architecture_i-m-not-a-religious-person-but-when-i-lo_314085.jpg" --- > [I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/i-m-not-a-religious-person-but-when-i-look-at-a-beautiful-cathedral/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/546/jason-silva-8140_architecture_i-m-not-a-religious-person-but-when-i-lo_314085.jpg) > [Awe is the best drug in the world](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/awe-is-the-best-drug-in-the-world/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b40/jason-silva-8140_awe_awe-is-the-best-drug-in-the-world-363841_363841.png) > [We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/we-fit-the-universe-through-our-brains-and-it-comes-out-in-the-form/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/559/jason-silva-8140_awe_we-fit-the-universe-through-our-brains-a_1051130.png) > [Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/mindgasm-noun-an-exhilarating-neurostorm-of-intense-intellectual/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/998/jason-silva-8140_awe_mindgasm-noun-an-exhilarating-neurostorm_1504030.jpg) ## Other authors on Awe - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-b-b-king-1507543-16033.jpg) Joseph P. 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Fire can cook our food but also burn us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/technology-is-of-course-a-double-edged-sword-fire-can-cook-our-food/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/if-you-use-it-intelligently-twitter-can-be-a-form-of-engineered/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our ability to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/i-think-that-human-beings-have-gotten-as-far-as-we-ve-gotten-because/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/there-is-always-this-interesting-relationship-we-have-with-technology/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/i-always-tell-people-that-revelling-in-big-ideas-for-me-is-kind-of/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even stay within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/we-didn-t-stay-in-the-caves-we-haven-t-stayed-on-the-planet-with/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/movies-have-these-transcendent-moments-where-everything-is-just-right/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/imagination-allows-us-to-conceive-of-delightful-future-possibilities/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [It's kind of depressing when you hear the anti-science rhetoric in America, but I think that people are just afraid of change, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/it-s-kind-of-depressing-when-you-hear-the-anti-science-rhetoric-in/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/i-m-not-a-religious-person-but-when-i-look-at-a-beautiful-cathedral/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [The phone is gonna disappear. Maybe it will be a bracelet. After the bracelet it will be a blood cell sized device that maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/the-phone-is-gonna-disappear-maybe-it-will-be-a-bracelet-after-the/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [Awe is the best drug in the world](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/awe-is-the-best-drug-in-the-world/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [Imagine something a million times more powerful than your smartphone that is the size of a brain cell interfacing with your biological neurons. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/imagine-something-a-million-times-more-powerful-than-your-smartphone/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/i-prefer-the-word-journeyman-to-journalist-because-i-think-that/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) > [I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/i-think-one-of-the-both-liberating-and-terrifying-prospects-from/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awe/jason-silva/#itemlist", "name": "4 Awe Quotes By Jason Silva", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm not a religious person. 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