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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."

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"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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"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

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"An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members."

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"I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road."

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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."

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"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."

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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."

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"I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about."

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"My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that."

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"But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before."

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"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."

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"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."
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"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."
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"I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science."
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"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."
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"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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"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."
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"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
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"I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room."
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"To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing."
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