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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

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By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling. ↗

— 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 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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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

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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. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices. ↗

— Heath Ledger

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I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished. ↗

— Heath Ledger

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Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life. ↗

— Ang Lee

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