Quotes by Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg

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

Newspaper Reporters

Newspapers

Said

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

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Rage

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.

Important

Personality

Thinking

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.

Details

Needs

Real

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

Age

Successful

Trying

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

Biochemistry

Study

Textbooks

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

First Time

Firsts

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I’d be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

Believe

Liars

Stupid

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

Calling

Religious

Saws

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.

Humanity

Pressure

Should

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Quotes by Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg

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

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

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.

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

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

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I’d be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

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

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.

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