All Joshua Lederberg Quotes
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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To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.
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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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Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
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If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.
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If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.
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I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.
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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 was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.
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I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.
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I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.
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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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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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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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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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