I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an… — George Wald Copy Share Image
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it. — George Wald Copy Share Image
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers… — 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
If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly… — 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
There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical… — 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
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
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
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
A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must… — George Wald Copy Share Image
A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way… — 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
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
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack. — George Wald Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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