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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 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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Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike. ↗

— Ang Lee

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

— Joshua Lederberg

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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

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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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