Joshua Lederberg

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.

I'm 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.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

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

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

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.

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.