Joshua Lederberg quote: "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."

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn&#...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will d...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is i...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was ...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended i...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do ...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; he...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an...
JOSHUA FOER

If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative ...
JOSHUA BELL

You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of...
JOSHUA FOER

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences...
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called...
JOSHUA FOER

Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be pa...
JOSHUA COHEN

For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indu...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our ...
JOSHUA FOER

I'll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I'll have an hour just resting, to ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall ...
JOSHUA FOER

I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents ...
JOSHUA MALINA

I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd M...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mum...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the real...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a lon...
JOSHUA FOER

I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.
JOSHUA BELL

A Woman's Question

Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by t...
JOSHUA HARRIS

The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as...
JOSHUA HARRIS

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was ...
JOSHUA SLOCUM

I knew now that I had put a world behind me, and that I was opening out another world ahead. I had p...
JOSHUA SLOCUM

I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895, was f...
JOSHUA SLOCUM

I grasped her gunwale and held on as she turned bottom up, for I suddenly remembered that I could no...
JOSHUA SLOCUM

...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, "Land lies there.
JOSHUA SLOCUM

Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
JOSHUA SLOCUM

Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear.
JOSHUA WISENBAKER

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed a...
JOSHUA RENOLDS

All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet.
JOSHUA NKOMO

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

There's so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don't a...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literatur...
JOSHUA COHEN

The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it...
JOSHUA BELL

All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth k...
JOSHUA FOER

Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scienti...
JOSHUA BELL

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life exper...
JOSHUA FOER

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or ...
JOSHUA SLOCUM

In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do tha...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

Cardio is a nice way to start the morning, man. Whether you sit on the bike for half an hour or thro...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the s...
JOSHUA FOER

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resi...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.
JOSHUA BELL

In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN

In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the worl...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

I am nice, yeah. I'm cool. But I'm no push-over. And if someone gets one over on me, they...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By...
JOSHUA FOER

My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was st...
JOSHUA SLOCUM

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
JOSHUA FOER

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.
JOSHUA FOER

Enough is as good as a feast.
JOSHUA SYLVESTER

Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to giv...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writin...
JOSHUA FOER

'The Look of Silence' is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. ...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was thi...
JOSHUA COHEN

In 1987, I had no idea who Steven Isserlis was. We met at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South ...
JOSHUA BELL

I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning ...
JOSHUA COHEN

We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons wh...
JOSHUA BELL

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious me...
JOSHUA FOER

We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high m...
JOSHUA BELL

I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way,...
JOSHUA ROMAN

Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with t...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN

Am I feminist? I don't know. I'm not really sure what that is. I am all up for equality to a...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I don't have a strict diet; I keep it simple. I try to eat fish, meat, veg and carbs - potatoes ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man h...
JOSHUA SLOCUM

My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer n...
JOSHUA PRAGER

They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing...
JOSHUA FERRIS

There is a short window at the beginning of one's professional life, when it is comparatively ea...
JOSHUA FOER

Prayer is a form of meditation, isn't it? It's laws of attraction: whatever you put out into...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre m...
JOSHUA LEONARD

We donate time, expertise, and resources to a wide array of charitable and nonprofit organizations a...
JOSHUA BEKENSTEIN

The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes...
JOSHUA FOER

It's not so much about conquering Madison Square Garden or Vegas. The opponents who I fight will...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in...
JOSHUA FOER

I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer fo...
JOSHUA COHEN

From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock your...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good...
JOSHUA BELL

I do basically what a conductor does with a baton, except I also play along with the orchestra. So I...
JOSHUA BELL

I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don'...
JOSHUA BELL

I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I ha...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fin...
JOSHUA FERRIS

If you film a little boy going to school, the big event in that boy's day and all the classmates...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and b...
JOSHUA BELL

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given ...
JOSHUA SLOCUM

It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the conf...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovieti...
JOSHUA COHEN

Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.
JOSHUA KAI

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languag...
JOSHUA FOER

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That&#...
JOSHUA BELL

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose lif...
JOSHUA SYLVESTER

Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!
JOSHUA JACKSON

My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol...
JOSHUA BELL

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come ...
JOSHUA FOER

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry ...
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 're...
JOSHUA COHEN

I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, ...
JOSHUA BELL

I'm happy if my music is being downloaded, whether it's legally or illegally.
JOSHUA BELL

After I left that, I wanted to continue programming films, so I started the Jewish film festival.
JOSHUA ABBEY

All are unique films that you will not likely see anywhere else.
JOSHUA ABBEY

It gives them an incentive to market the film aggressively to their constituents. Then they can use ...
JOSHUA ABBEY

The film created a huge buzz at Cannes. Few people realize that Natalie Portman is Jewish and that s...
JOSHUA ABBEY

I culled the cream of the crop.
JOSHUA ABBEY

I use Facebook quite a lot to keep up with my friends, although I had to delete 'Words With Frie...
JOSHUA BELL

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to...
JOSHUA SLOCUM

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic proce...
JOSHUA FOER

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

When sense runs out, one shall follow.
JOSHUA MONTENEGRO

When luck runs out, sense runs in.
JOSHUA MONTENEGRO

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed ...
JOSHUA RENOLDS

We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then i...
JOSHUA SCHACHTER

Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing...
JOSHUA SCHACHTER

When you are caught with a big shot, you don't really feel it. It's like being in a car cras...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, m...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring an...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

Even when there is only a 1% chance for success, you have to put in 110% of the work to make that la...
JOSHUA LI

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman...
JOSHUA FOER

What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, ...
JOSHUA FOER

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something....
JOSHUA FOER

We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but th...
JOSHUA FOER

I love the outdoor festival feeling.
JOSHUA BELL

I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I happen to love Saint-Saens in general. I think he's a brilliant composer and sometimes underra...
JOSHUA BELL

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lif...
JOSHUA FOER

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it...
JOSHUA FOER

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.
JOSHUA BELL

This (year) is more about walking through the catacombs where the victims are. You get to see more o...
JOSHUA REALE

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on...
JOSHUA BELL

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people ...
JOSHUA JACKSON

Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, no...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsessi...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been ...
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.
JOSHUA WAITZKIN

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had bee...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our coll...
JOSHUA FOER

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right ...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have e...
JOSHUA BELL

If all they do is pick out a couple of MPs to slice and dice ... that is not going to be what is nee...
JOSHUA DRATEL

Video games spark the imagination, empower the mind, and take you to the place where you have always...
JOSHUA CLARKE

We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in w...
JOSHUA FOER

I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise ...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in t...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN

I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actual...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

He stops walking and grasps both of my hands to stop me. He narrows his eyes at me. "You’ve never ...
ISABELLE JOSHUA

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS

I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is n...
JOSHUA FERRIS

As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The ...
JOSHUA BELL

I know how to deal with jet lag, and I know just how much rest I need and when I need to take naps. ...
JOSHUA BELL

I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and...
JOSHUA FERRIS

Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a ve...
JOSHUA BELL

People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's cra...
JOSHUA SASSE

One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding b...
JOSHUA KADISON

Like [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak, Assad will be smirking at U.S. discomfiture as Washington s...
JOSHUA LANDIS

I think you can appreciate different interpretations. Art is not a contest. I can even appreciate he...
JOSHUA BELL

Laughing is a necessity of life.
JOSHUA CLARKE

The thing I hate the most, is hate itself.
JOSHUA CLARKE

There is one problem with the entire concept of time. There is so little of it.
JOSHUA CLARKE

Without this, I'd be either in jail or dead. It is real motivating.
JOSHUA YOUNG

I don't have a preferred religion - I'd have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such i...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN

Every time I get an autograph, I feel like I'm taking home a little piece of that star. What dri...
JOSHUA MORROW

‎True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before t...
JOSHUA HARRIS

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness d...
JOSHUA FERRIS

Music is such an incredible tool for kids in general. They learn discipline; they learn how to expre...
JOSHUA BELL

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's ...
JOSHUA HARRIS

So much of performing is a mind game. You're memorizing thousands of notes, and if you start thi...
JOSHUA BELL

Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory pa...
JOSHUA FOER

The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in...
JOSHUA FOER

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaki...
JOSHUA HARRIS

Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.
JOSHUA HARRIS

Living to glorify God means doing everything...
for Him,
His way,
to point to His gre...
JOSHUA HARRIS

Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him. Look at Mike Tyson against Trevo...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do....
JOSHUA BELL

The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I ...
JOSHUA LEONARD

And He was the one who invented marriage so that the blazing fire of romantic love could become some...
JOSHUA HARRIS

If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you&#...
JOSHUA FOER

Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that&#...
JOSHUA FERRIS

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thou...
JOSHUA SYLVESTER

The way I meditate is by being organised. I can get real Zen if I go home and tidy the front room.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

True love isn’t just expressed in passionately whispered words or an intimate kiss or an embrace; ...
JOSHUA HARRIS

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.

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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.

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