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One 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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.…
- 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 are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is…
- 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…
- [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…
- 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…
- Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
- The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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