Religious Calling Quotes by Joshua Lederberg

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• I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.
• As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs…
• I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a…
• The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.
• Everybody has to learn for the first 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…
• By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
• A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
• I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
• I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny…
• I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders…
• I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

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