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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
"If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate."
Explore more quotes by Joshua Lederberg
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."
"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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