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

• 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)
• 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. (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)
• To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it. (George Wald)
• We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life. (George Wald)
• We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons. (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. (George Wald)
• You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years. (George Wald)

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