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The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
— Joshua Lederberg
I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
— Antonio Tabucchi
Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
— Richard Mitchell
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
I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.
— Joshua Lederberg
Diamonds are forever, and so is Ric Flair!
— Ric Flair
Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.
— Colin R. Davis
We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.
— Joshua Lederberg
To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.
— Joshua Lederberg
Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
— Joshua Lederberg
Everybody has to learn for the first time.
— Joshua Lederberg
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
Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.
— Steve Martin
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
— Joshua Lederberg
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
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
I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.
— Joshua Lederberg
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
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
— Joshua Lederberg
I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.
— Joshua Lederberg
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
— Joshua Lederberg
I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.
— Joshua Lederberg
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.
— Joshua Lederberg
So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.
— Joshua Lederberg
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.
— Joshua Lederberg
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
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
— 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
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
— Joshua Lederberg
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
— Joshua Lederberg
The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.
— Joshua Lederberg
The dynamic nature of knowledge is reflected in human progress and technological achievements.
— Eraldo Banovac
If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.
— Joshua Lederberg