"The trouble with most of the things that……" — George Wald
"The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them."
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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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