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

Everybody has to learn for the first time.
Joshua Lederberg

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
Joshua Lederberg

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

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

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

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
Joshua Lederberg

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.
Joshua Lederberg