“I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very v...” — Joshua Lederberg Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You try to make the decisions that you think are best in realtime.”

“Sometimes people don't want to be empowered because they are afraid of being the person to make the decisions.”

“I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.”