"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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"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.“
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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'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."
-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."
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"I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling."
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"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
-Steve Irwin
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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
-Anne Tyler
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"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
-Brigham Young
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"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it."
-Donna Mills
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
-Thomas More
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
-Rowan D. Williams
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