Top 35 Quotes by Joshua Lederberg

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

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'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.

Life's a hobby.

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

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

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

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.

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

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.