Joshua Lederberg

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

#communications #get #global #help #how

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. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#dabbling #easily #fact #i #inhibited

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#careful #establish #far #field #ought

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#implications #jumps #years

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

#base #civil #civil society #enormous #harm

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

#details #doing #end #letting #lot

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#cells #dissect #extremely #genetic #interest

Life's a hobby. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#life

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

— Joshua Lederberg

#by the time #clearly #fixed #i #time

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#i #just #many #predicted #right