There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe… — George Wald Copy Share Image
I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective. — George Wald Copy Share Image
We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It… — George Wald Copy Share Image
We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository… — George Wald Copy Share Image
One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible.… — George Wald Copy Share Image
About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and… — George Wald Copy Share Image
We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of… — George Wald Copy Share Image
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out… — George Wald Copy Share Image
There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side.… — George Wald Copy Share Image
When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way.… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald Copy Share Image
[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once…… — George Wald Copy Share Image
I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules,… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“Mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed always as the matrix, the source and… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“Life has a status in the physical universe. It is part of the order of nature. It has a high place in… — George Wald Copy Share Image
I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind. — George Wald Copy Share
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. — George Wald Copy Share
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products… — George Wald Copy Share
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on… — George Wald Copy Share
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the… — George Wald Copy Share
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack. — George Wald Copy Share
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War… — George Wald Copy Share
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen… — George Wald Copy Share
There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are… — George Wald Copy Share
I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no… — George Wald Copy Share
There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God… There… — George Wald Copy Share
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