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
peace grateful heart
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.
men earth solar-system
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.
people want trouble
The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.
government
The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.
war crime invention
The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
stars past blood
We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked in a remote past in a dying star. The waters of ancient seas set the pattern of ions in our blood. The ancient atmospheres moulded our metabolism.
twelve defense gross
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
men immortality pursued
Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
science origin-of-life order
[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is of the order of two billion years.... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.
rest-of-life decision earth
We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.
origin-of-life growth important
The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side. However improbable we regard this event, or any of the steps which it involves, given enough time it will almost certainly happen at least once. And for life as we know it, with its capacity for growth and reproduction, once may be enough.
nuclear weapons nuclear-weapons
We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.
mean breakfast-food giving
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.
future mean science
I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.