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Generations Quotes by George Wald
- 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…
- 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…
- When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was…
- I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means…
- I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to…
- It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean…
- [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…
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- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — Paul Auster
- I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every… — John Avlon
- I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new… — Dan Aykroyd
- Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no,… — Christian Bale
- In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate… — Bob Barr
- Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a… — John Adams
- I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche. — Beck
- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to… — Joseph Addison