"We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam -……" — George Wald
"We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated."
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68 Quotes by George Wald
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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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