Top 35 Quotes by Joshua Lederberg

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

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

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.

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

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.