George Wald
George Wald
George David Waldwas an American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth18 November 1906
CountryUnited States of America
atomic cannot rid
We have to get rid of those atomic weapons, here and everywhere. We cannot live with them.
involving
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?
eventually love
To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
alive appear billion creature life line organism primitive represents three
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.
material nuclear obtained tradition utterly war worth
There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
using
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
estimates far hoped major number run
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.
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.
long way evolution
Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
thank-you heaven secret
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.
communication technology space
I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space.
love-life mirrors lovely
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.
Our business is with life, not death.