Joshua Lederberg Quotes

• The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Men, Viruses, Dominance

  "Ebola Epidemic 'Out of Control'", abcnews.go.com. August 3, 2014.

  24 Copy quote

• 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

  Passion, Two, Life Is Hard

  10 Copy quote

• All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Able, Rage, Civility

  11 Copy quote

• 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

  Real, Fields, Curious

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  Wisdom, Issues, Politics

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Real, Details, Needs

  5 Copy quote

• Everybody has to learn for the first time.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Firsts, First Time

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Thinking, Risk, Able

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  Facts, Subjects, Knows

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Liars, Stupid, Believe

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Powerful, Cells, Analysis

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Years, Fields, Be Careful

  9 Copy quote

• To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Blessing, Attention, Rewards

  7 Copy quote

• I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Ignorance, Physicians, Diagnosis

  4 Copy quote

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

  Joshua Lederberg

  Religious, Calling, Saws

  8 Copy quote

• I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Encouragement, People, Style

  4 Copy quote

• I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Lucky, Able, Feels

  11 Copy quote

• Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Successful, Age, Trying

  6 Copy quote

• I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Believe, Textbooks, Don't Believe

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  School, Cells, Trying

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Communication, Groups, Use

  7 Copy quote

• I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Labs, Nobel, Prize

  7 Copy quote

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

  Joshua Lederberg

  Years, Enormous, Implications

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Thinking, Personality, Important

  7 Copy quote

• I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Fascination, Vote

  8 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Edward Lawrie Tatum

George Wells Beadle

Sydney Brenner

Francois Jacob

Oswald Avery

Jacques Monod

Andre Michel Lwoff

Arthur Kornberg