George Wald quotes Born: 11/18/1906 Died: 04/13/1997 Country: usa

• We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. (George Wald) [authorship]
• A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize. (George Wald)
• A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. (George Wald)
• A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. (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)
• A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. (George Wald)
• A scientist should be the happiest of men. (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)
• And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense. (George Wald)
• As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. (George Wald)
• As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time. (George Wald)
• Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. (George Wald)
• I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me. (George Wald)
• I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. (George Wald)
• I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective. (George Wald)
• I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? (George Wald)
• I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack. (George Wald)
• In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse. (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)
• It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does. (George Wald)
• Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. (George Wald)
• Our business is with life, not death. (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)
• Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality. (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)
• The concept of war crimes is an American invention. (George Wald)
• The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful. (George Wald)
• The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life. (George Wald)
• The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. (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)
• The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them. (George Wald)

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