Best George Wald Sayings
- Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. Atomic
- A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. Atom
- The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to… All
- All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side. Aggressor
- We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. Authorship
- There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It… Defeating
- 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 II,… Committed
- Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse. Authentic
- Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of… Advances
- If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air,… Ago
- I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that… Among
- You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear… Alive
- To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it. Accept
- The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. Atomic
- I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would… Ask
- As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything… All
- And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense. All
- A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. All