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George Wald

(1906–1997) Neuroscientist United States

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George Wald was a neuroscientist from the United States, best known for Twenty-six afternoons of biology.

Quick Facts About George Wald

Born: November 18, 1906
Died: April 12, 1997
Nationality: United States
Profession: Neuroscientist
Notable works: Twenty-six afternoons of biology

About George Wald

George Wald was an American scientist and activist who studied pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Guggenheim Fellowship Frederic Ives Medal Rumford Prize honorary doctor of the University of Rennes

Quotes by George Wald · Page 2

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

Better

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As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear…

Attack

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I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

Goals

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Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the…

Astonishing

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One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible.…

Believe

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There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it…

Ideological

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I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in…

Advanced technology

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The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with…

Chinese

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We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of…

Action

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“Life has a status in the physical universe. It is part of the order of nature. It has a high place in…

Life

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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…

Accounts

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The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

American

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A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

Accepting

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When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.

Hard

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All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on…

Defense

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There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical…

Animal

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I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that…

Billions

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If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly…

Air

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It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those…

Breakfast

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The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple…

Casts

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The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

Government

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Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an…

Corpses

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I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous…

Be spontaneous

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We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked…

Ancient

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To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

Accept

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George Wald by topic

Life (24) Science (23) Way (9) Years (8) Knows (8) Generations (8) Evolution (8)