Quote by Joshua Lederberg
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much

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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Im 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 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 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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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? – Carl Sagan

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Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect. – Freeman Dyson

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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. – Jules Verne

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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. – Charles Kettering

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