Joshua Lederberg Quotes
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The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.
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By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
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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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All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
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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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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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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 don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.
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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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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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Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
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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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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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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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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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I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.
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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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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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If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.
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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 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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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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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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My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.