Top 35 Quotes by Joshua Lederberg

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

Life's a hobby.

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.

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.

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.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

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.

We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.