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So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.
- Joshua Lederberg
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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.
- Joshua Lederberg
#Communication
#Internet
#Research
#Way
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.
- Joshua Lederberg
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A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
- Joshua Lederberg
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#Prize
#Reporter
#Said
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.
- Joshua Lederberg
#Believe
#Know
#Live
#Purpose
#Will
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.
- Joshua Lederberg
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#I Feel
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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.
- Joshua Lederberg
#Civil Society
#Imagine
#Society
#Weapon
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
- Joshua Lederberg
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#Science
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
- Joshua Lederberg
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#Time
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#Were
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
- Joshua Lederberg
#Biochemistry
#Studying
#Textbooks
#Time
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.
- Joshua Lederberg
#I Am
#My Own
#Personality
#Privacy
#Shy
Everybody has to learn for the first time.
- Joshua Lederberg
#First Time
#First
#Learn
#Time
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
- Joshua Lederberg
#Able
#Being
#Civility
#Depends
#Rage
To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.
- Joshua Lederberg
#Attention
#Blessing
#Colleagues
#Great
We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.
- Joshua Lederberg
#About
#Best
#Find
#Individual
#Out
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.
- Joshua Lederberg
#Curious
#New Things
#New
#Real
#Strength
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.
- Joshua Lederberg
#Education
#Elders
#Me
#Pressure
#Science
Life's a hobby.
- Joshua Lederberg
#Hobby
#Life
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