Joshua Lederberg Quotes

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.

Joshua Lederberg

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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• The army is the true nobility of our country.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Country
  • True
  • Army

• I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Road

• I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Speak
  • Italian
  • Spanish

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
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• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Children

• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Never

• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Science
  • Criticism
  • Myths

• Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Want
  • Hollywood
  • Fulfilled

• I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.

  

  Irving Stone
  • School
  • Stop
  • Design

• We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
  • Living
  • Google

• I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Riding

• One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Guitar
  • Paris

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • You
  • Dying

• Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Important
  • Man

• We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be a real threat to the medical profession.

  

  Eric Topol
  • Real

• My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Talent

• Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Real
  • Man
  • City

• I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Work
  • Study
  • Profound

• 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.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Wisdom
  • Moral
  • Politics