Joshua Lederberg Quotes

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.
Joshua Lederberg

Life, Good, Hard

We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.
Joshua Lederberg

Best, Find, Individual

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.
Joshua Lederberg

Education, Science, Interest

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.
Joshua Lederberg

Group, Research, Started

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.
Joshua Lederberg

Work, Done, Young

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.
Joshua Lederberg

Work, School, Bored

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.
Joshua Lederberg

Science, Help, Process

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.
Joshua Lederberg

Society, Single, Whole

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.
Joshua Lederberg

Work, End, Understand

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.
Joshua Lederberg

School, Trying, Understand

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: May 23, 1925

Died: February 2, 2008

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