"I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying……" — George Wald
"I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space."
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68 Quotes by George Wald
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Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner…
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We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
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Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
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The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no…
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Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make…
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I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and…
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A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to…
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A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is…
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Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader,…
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A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy.…
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About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things,…
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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 Advanced Quotes
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced…
— John Adams
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
— Niels Bohr
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
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I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming…
— David Byrne
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
— Stephen Ambrose
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and…
— Hermann Kolbe
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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