Joshua Lederberg

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

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

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.