51 Quotes by Joshua Lederberg

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

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 was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.

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 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.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

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

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

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.