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George Wald Quotes

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense Picture Quote #1

About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by his sufferance. He is the custodian of life on earth, and in the solar system. It’s a big responsibility Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship Picture Quote #1

A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn’t serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy Picture Quote #1

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found it's 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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he’d be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age Picture Quote #1

Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas Picture Quote #1

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Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing Picture Quote #1

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it Picture Quote #1

When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved one hundred years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose spontaneously by chance! Picture Quote #1

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I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me (George Wald Quotes) 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 Quotes) And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense (George Wald Quotes) About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by his sufferance. He is the custodian of life on earth, and in the solar system. It’s a big responsibility (George Wald Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (George Wald Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time (George Wald Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror (George Wald Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (George Wald Quotes) Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship (George Wald Quotes) A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn’t serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy (George Wald Quotes) The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found it's 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he’d be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age (George Wald Quotes) Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas (George Wald Quotes) Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing (George Wald Quotes) A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it (George Wald Quotes) When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved one hundred years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose spontaneously by chance! (George Wald Quotes)

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