[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once… The time... is of the order of two billion years… Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible,… — 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. However improbable we regard this event, or any of the steps which it involves, given enough time it… — 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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