Joshua Lederberg

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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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. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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

— Joshua Lederberg

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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

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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

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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. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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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. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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