George Wald Quotes

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• Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is…
• We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
• Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
• The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the doubtful satisfaction of…
• Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the "organic" molecules that…
• I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine…
• A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
• A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy,…
• Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to…
• A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists…
• About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by…
• Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this…
• 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 union.…
• Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and…
• I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of…
• There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students…
• There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is…
• Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are…
• One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we…
• Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

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