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Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
George Wald
A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.
George Wald
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
George Wald
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
George Wald
I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
George Wald
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
George Wald
I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
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 the only men.
George Wald
Our business is with life, not death.
George Wald
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
George Wald
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
George Wald
We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
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 to be more limited.
George Wald
The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.
George Wald
As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.
George Wald
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
George Wald
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
George Wald
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
George Wald
A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.
George Wald
We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.
George Wald
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
George Wald
The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
George Wald
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