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American - Scientist May 23, 1925 - February 2, 2008

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

Joshua Lederberg

Blessing Colleagues Great Attention

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

Joshua Lederberg

Being Rage Civility Able

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

Joshua Lederberg

Time Very Were Clearly

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

Joshua Lederberg

Time Studying Biochemistry Textbooks

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

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Science Kind Calling Saw

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

Joshua Lederberg

School Understand High School Trying

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

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You Powerful Living Cells

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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Education Me Science Pressure

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.

Joshua Lederberg

Work School Reading Teachers

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.

Joshua Lederberg

Talent New Wish I Wish

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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.

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Strength New Things New Curious

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.

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Me Stop Know Something

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

Joshua Lederberg

Time First Time First Learn

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

Joshua Lederberg

Me Confidence Age Try

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.

Joshua Lederberg

You Yourself Be Careful Years

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

Personality I Am Think My Own

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.

Joshua Lederberg

Work Done Decisions Personal

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 Think Live Purpose

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

Joshua Lederberg

I Am Stupid Believe Liar

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.

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You Go Process Real

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

Joshua Lederberg

Believe Everything Anybody Even

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

Society Think Single Risk

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

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Work Prize Nobel Prize Got

Life's a hobby.

Joshua Lederberg

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

Joshua Lederberg

Life Hope Science Style

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

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Science Vote Like Put

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