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Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg, ForMemRS (May 23, 1925 – February 2, 2008) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). He shared the prize with Edward Tatum and George Beadle, who won for their work with genetics.

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Everybody has to learn for the first time.

Everybody, First Time, Firsts, Learn, Time

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

Lab, Labs, Nobel, Prize

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

Able, Feels, Lucky, Shortcomings

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

Cells, Chemical, Composition, School, Trying, Understand

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

Calling, Kind, Religious, Saws

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

Believe, Don'T Believe, Everything, Grasp, Textbook, Textbooks

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

Attention, Blessing, Mixed, Public, Recognition, Rewards

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

Begin, Issues, Know, Peace, Politics, Wisdom

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

Believe, Liar, Liars, Stupid, Think, Unusual

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.

Thinking, Risk, Nuclear, Society, Weapon, Lunatic

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.

Easily, Fact, Facts, Knows, Stop, Subjects

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

Able, Civility, Depends, Individuals, Rage

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.

Biological, Details, Needs, Process, Real, Terms

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

Bad, Diagnosis, Ignorance, Physician, Physicians, Practicing

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

Newspapers, Newspaper Reporters, Said, Quite, Swedish, Practical

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

Biggest, Dominance, Men, Virus, Viruses

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

Fascination, Intrinsic, Science, Vote

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

Ambition, Ambitions, Fixed, My Ambition, Time

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.

Approaches, Curious, Field, Fields, Finding, Real

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

Good, Life, Life Is Hard, Passion, Passions, Two

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