Joshua Lederberg Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Everybody has to learn for the first time.”

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

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

“A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.”

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