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
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Life's a hobby.
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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.
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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.
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All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
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My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
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By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
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I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
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When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.
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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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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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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.
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