51 Quotes by Joshua Lederberg

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 hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

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.

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

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

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

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.

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