"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."
-Joshua Lederberg
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"I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.“
-Joshua Lederberg
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"I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process."
-Joshua Lederberg
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"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."
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"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."
-Joshua Lederberg
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"I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling."
-Joshua Lederberg
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"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."
-Joshua Lederberg
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"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
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"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."
-Brian Aldiss
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"We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space."
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"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
-John Desmond Bernal
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"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
-John Desmond Bernal
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