Joshua Lederberg Quotes

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Science is not addressed to poets.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

I was a terrible science student, so I could never be a scientist; my mind doesn't work that way. But I've learned to love the stories around science, and I have so much respect and fascination for the people who can make discoveries and find applications. There's a lot of drama there.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

I loved science. I still love it; I'm a nerd in that sense.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.