Quotes George Wald

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probab...

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know....

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms....

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is some...

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better....

A scientist should be the happiest of men....

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all...

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are...

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the num...

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information...

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a ...

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already beh...

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good ...

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattaina...

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that wh...

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against...

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in...

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without...

It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supp...

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, an...

Our business is with life, not death....

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and l...

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of im...

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national...

The concept of war crimes is an American invention....