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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."

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

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Akshay Vasu

"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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Akshay Vasu

"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."

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Akshay Vasu

"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."

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Akshay Vasu

"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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Akshay Vasu

"Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out."

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Akshay Vasu

"I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school."

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Akshay Vasu

"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."

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Akshay Vasu

"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."

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Akshay Vasu

"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."

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Akshay Vasu

"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."

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Joshua Lederberg
"I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it."

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Joshua Lederberg
"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."

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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 to it."

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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 a while."

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Joshua Lederberg
"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."

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Joshua Lederberg
"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."

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Joshua Lederberg
"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."

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Joshua Lederberg
"Everybody has to learn for the first time."

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

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Joshua Lederberg
"By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks."

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