Dissect Structure Quotes by Joshua Lederberg

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

— Joshua Lederberg

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…

— Joshua Lederberg

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

— Joshua Lederberg

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…

— Joshua Lederberg

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

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

— Joshua Lederberg

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for…

— Joshua Lederberg

I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.

— Joshua Lederberg

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

— Joshua Lederberg

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

— Joshua Lederberg

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches…

— Joshua Lederberg

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after…

— Joshua Lederberg

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

— Joshua Lederberg

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

— Joshua Lederberg

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

— Joshua Lederberg