Top 35 Quotes by 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 as a way of managing research projects.

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

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

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

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

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.

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.

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

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

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