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Life Quotes by George Wald
- 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…
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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 tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
- Our business is with life, not death.
- We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely…
- I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
- 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 the…
- The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.
- [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…
- We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of…
- 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…
- 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…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle