Joshua Lederberg Quotes - Page 2

• A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Newspapers, Newspaper Reporters, Said

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• I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Humanity, Pressure, Should

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

  Joshua Lederberg

  Ambition, Fixed, My Ambition

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

  Joshua Lederberg

  Technology, Sitting, Fronts

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• 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

  Wish, Talent, Dropping

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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

  Believe, Thinking, Purpose

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

  Joshua Lederberg

  Textbooks, Study, Biochemistry

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