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Joshua Lederberg Quotes
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, Youve been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
Although I am a public figure, Im still a little shy. I dont think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover its open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
Everybody has to learn for the first time. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think Id be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I dont believe anybody can really grasp everything thats even in one textbook. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what Ive had. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I hope Ive lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they dont live as if they deny it. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didnt ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
Id like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
Im chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
Im not easily inhibited by the fact that I dont know something about a subject. It doesnt stop me from dabbling in it. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we dont understand what they are doing. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
Lifes a hobby. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7. - Joshua Lederberg Quotes
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