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.
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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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.'
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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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.
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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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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.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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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.
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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.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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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.
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Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
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Electricity can transform people's lives, not just economically but also socially.
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Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.
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I'm not big on the closet.
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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.
