Committed Quote by George Wald

Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

— George Wald

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

— George Wald

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

— George Wald

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products…

— George Wald

Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on…

— George Wald

I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the…

— George Wald

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

— George Wald

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

— George Wald

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

— George Wald

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen…

— George Wald

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are…

— George Wald

I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no…

— George Wald