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.

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• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

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• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

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• The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

  

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• I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

  

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• I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.

  

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• At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

  

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• My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing guys who say, 'I'm gonna stick my hand in that crocodile's mouth and see what happens.' And then it snaps down on them. There you go - that's what you get! It's a wild animal, my friend.

  

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• I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual book. So until it's close to done, I keep pretty quiet about my next stuff!

  

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• There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now exists or ever did exist. I refer to Great Britain.

  

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• We were solid the whole time. Our pitching was great, we had great defense and it showed tonight. Uribe came up so clutch. He's the best shortstop in the league right there. Without him tonight, we'd still be playing.

  

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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.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Powerful
  • Interest
  • Analysis