Joshua Lederberg Quotes

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.
I'm 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.
I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.
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.
If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.
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.
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 don't understand what they are doing.
If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
Life's a hobby.
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.
To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.
When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.
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Joshua Lederberg
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23 May, 1925
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02 February, 2008
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