"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."
― Joshua Lederberg
Topic(s):
Society
More From 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 hope I’ve lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."
- "Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
More In Society
- "You don’t realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It’s a card you get so you can navigate society."― Adam Carolla
- "One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show."― Timothy Leary