Top 35 Quotes by Joshua Lederberg

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.

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.