"There is nothing worth having that can he……" — George Wald
"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating."
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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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We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building…
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There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished…
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Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
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It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration…
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In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal…
— William J. Clinton
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I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my…
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Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings…
— Marianne Williamson
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For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
— Sun Tzu
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The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of…
— Sun Tzu
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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the…
— Henry George
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up,…
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