I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
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
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
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
I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.
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 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.
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
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.
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'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.
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had. - Joshua Lederberg
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.
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
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.
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 a… - Joshua Lederberg
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 a…
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 … - Joshua Lederberg
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 …
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