Joshua Lederberg
Related JOHN O. BRENNAN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD GEORGE W. BUSH COLIN POWELL I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a n... ROBERT M. GATES If Iran gets to the point where it is capable of making a nuclear weapon, and then takes the final s... PATRICK CLAWSON SAM HARRIS It has probably become the single best man-killer, barring a nuclear weapon. DALE SMITH JOHN LOCKE When we understand more about the genes and the environmental factors that influence someone's risk,... ALISON GOATE When we understand more about the genes and the environmental factors that influence someone's risk,... ALISON M. GOATE GERMANY KENT MITT ROMNEY C. JOYBELL C. We can't be swayed by individuals. We have to look at the whole community. We can't really control w... CURT JOHNSTON Forgive me, Excellency. The fact you do not know is that Japan also is a nuclear power. I am convinc... ATSUKO ABE I am the perfect weapon, I can kill with a single touch. MELINDA SALISBURY Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY RON PAUL I don't think he is going to push the nuclear weapon button. BRAD RUBIN GEORGE MCGOVERN Until there's a practical solution for nuclear waste disposal, we believe the liabilities from nucle... CARSTEN HENNINGSEN If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran get... LIAM FOX CHLOE THURLOW CRAIG GROESCHEL TERRY PRATCHETT If we do not have reconciliation, we will not be able to heal the wounds, they will remain open. We ... DAHO DJERBAL Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that... MARTIN DEMPSEY Someone with inside knowledge is going to be able to do more harm than your standard run of the mill... ERIC MAIWALD We are seeing more targeted attacks that profile a specific group with tailored scams designed to in... JAMES BROOKS MITCH ALBOM DAISAKU IKEDA E.M. FORSTER I think all the girls can become good hitters. Our whole lineup is capable of hitting balls into the... JEFF FREEMAN I think it gives us a base for explaining why we had this enormous response to Viagra. EDWARD LAUMANN SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil di... GLENN ANTIZZO PETER T. KING When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to p... BOB LATTA The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agi... CHARLIE COOK BEN GOLDACRE BARACK OBAMA If we did not have the incentives, we would consider putting a nuclear plant in. We'll decide whethe... JOE DONAHUE Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy. JOSEPH CIRINCIONE Michigan is a tough course and we're really working at getting four good scores for each round. I th... KURT THOMAS CRAIG GROESCHEL MITCH ALBOM The idea here is if you know what happens in the highest risk individuals, you will know how to use ... STEVEN NISSEN I just think we can have a long-lasting effect on people's lives if we can do things together instea... WARRICK DUNN HASSAN ROUHANI EDMUND BURKE I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of o... DICK CHENEY If ever there was an unnecessary weapon after the Cold War, it's nuclear weapons. We have nuclear ca... CHRISTOPHER HELLMAN CHARLOTTE BINGHAM CHARLOTTE BINGHAM ALAN DERSHOWITZ MAGGIE HASSAN QUINCY JONES Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, ... JOHN SENTAMU Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those a... SHEREEN EL FEKI ROLLO MAY We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition... FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action. HARRY BRIDGES SAMUEL WILSON BILL BRADLEY JOSEPH ROTBLAT If you're not actually living on an army base, you don't have a support group, but at least we're ab... JOHN EDWARD The real concern is that it is spreading. We have not been able to put the fire out yet, and to thin... DON ROOSE If you think where computers have come in the last 10 years, you can think how far forgery has come.... DAVE PENRY I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one o... DICK CHENEY TONY JUDT QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able t... MICHAEL EALY We have, I think, come through the big danger of a vast and sudden exchange of nuclear weapons, ... ... BEN BOVA What we really do is create opportunities for individuals with special needs. We want them to have j... NANCY BARNETT GEORGE BUSH The secret of what we do with this spread attack is that you have to be able to run the ball. It (al... MICHAEL MCCLURE GRAHAM GREENE Statistically then, the risk is approximately 1 in 1,000, which is substantially higher than in the ... EUGENE MAJOR We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass des... DENNIS KUCINICH The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all. GEN CHARLES HORNER The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all. CHARLES HORNER I think we were jumping at the plate a little bit. We were chasing some bad pitches and just weren't... EARL HARTMAN One of things I looked at was our ability to use the bench. It's important we are able to bring our ... ANDY ROBINSON KEVIN COSTNER I think that as we go forward, obviously, you know, as part of the diplomatic process you're going t... ADAM ERELI MATT BOMER Joshua had always been able to get away with things—things for which he should never have been for... HAZEL BUTLER RICHARD FEYNMAN It is thoroughly irresponsible to promote the use of nuclear power when there is still no technicall... WENONAH HAUTER CRAIG GROESCHEL The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil soci... PADDY ASHDOWN In terms of risk, if something is not doing well, we are able to get out of it and take risk with ot... DENIZ ANDERS JAMES PHILLIPS HARLAND WILLIAMS Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been ... BIANCA JAGGER It will become the standard of care. In five years, I think we will not be able to imagine a world i... JOHN BYRNE UNKNOWN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON
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The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to tak... 
If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little l... 
I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that wi... 
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fi... 
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... 
My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines a... 
If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear ... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. 
I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Ri... 
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attack... 
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear ... 
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, i... 
The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use ... 
Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth... 
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has... 
What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. 
Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a we... 
On the nuclear issue, the first point is that the entire world must recognize that Iran does not see... 
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w... 
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the ma... 
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the m... 
What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to devel... 
Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it. 
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a litt... 
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome t... 
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base... 
There are issues such as what are we going to do with this enormous (budget) surplus that we have. I... 
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has... 
As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we kn... 
If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together. 
[Speaking from Mobile, Alabama, he said,] Its as if the entire Gulf Coast were obliterated by the wo... 
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible. 
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do... 
Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and b... 
If you're teaching a class, you can think about the elementary things that you know very well. These... 
If Iran attains a nuclear weapon, the Saudis may try to compete with Iran by obtaining their own nuk... 
I think being isolated like that let me really get in touch with my inner voice. I was able to ask m... 
The willow knows what the storm does not; the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it. 
Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an... 
If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative ... 
You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's ... 
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences... 
Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called... 
For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indu... 
Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall ... 
I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the real... 
I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker. 
A Woman's Question
The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as... 
I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was ... 
...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, "Land lies there. 
Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear. 
The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed a... 
All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet. 
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. 
The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it... 
In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the worl... 
'The Look of Silence' is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. ... 
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry ... 
The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed ... 
I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, m... 
True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before t... 