"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing…" — George Wald

"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."

— George Wald

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68 Quotes by George Wald

George Wald has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner…
We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no…
Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make…
I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and…
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to…
A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is…
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader,…
A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy.…
About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things,…
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive…

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More Atom Quotes

This quote is filed under Atom Quotes, one of 318 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. — Henry Adams
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust… — Annie Besant
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. — Niels Bohr
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. — Omar N. Bradley
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst… — Lord Byron
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything,… — Gerard De Nerval
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance… — Ernest Rutherford
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I… — Mark Twain
Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to… — Deepak Chopra
[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover… — Albert Einstein

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