A Quote by Joshua Lederberg

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications. — © Joshua Lederberg
If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.
Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.
It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that
It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.
I eat 30/40 grammes of carbohydrates, 30/40 grammes of proteins with every meal.
Everyone talks about 40 like it's massive, but I looked at Joanna Lumley at the Ab Fab premiere the other day, and she looks amazing at 70 - that's 30 years older than 40, which sounds ridiculous. The number doesn't matter; it's what's going on for you.
A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some species of tortoises not until 150 years.
Ted Kennedy was in the Senate for 40 years. Tip O'Neill for 35 years. John Kerry in the Senate for 30 some odd years. It does take time to become effective.
Ordering food has not changed for 30 or 40 years.
If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.
In most companies, the corporate mentality is if you're over 30, you're on the downhill side, and if you're over 40, you're brain dead. Or, if you're over 30 or 40 and you've been doing it for a while, you've got experience and you want to be paid for that experience.
If I'm 40 years old and wearing a 30 waist, that's pretty good.
So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.
You've got to go for what you love and not look back 30 years, 40 years later and say, 'I never tried.' You got to try.
I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?
I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.
If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.
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