All Joshua Lederberg Quotes
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
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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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So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.
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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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We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.
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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 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 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 was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.
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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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I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
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