Joshua Lederberg quotes
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“Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.”
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“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.”
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“I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.”
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“I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.”
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“A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.”
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“By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.”
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“Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.”
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“Everybody has to learn for the first time.”
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“The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.”
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“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.”
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“The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.”
-- Joshua LederbergSource : "Ebola Epidemic 'Out of Control'", abcnews.go.com. August 3, 2014.
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“As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.”
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“If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.”
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“My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.”
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“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.”
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“All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.”
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“I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.”
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“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 don't live as if they deny it.”
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“To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.”
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“I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.”
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“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.”
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“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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“So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.”
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“I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.”
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“I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.”
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