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George Wald quotes

American Scientist November 18, 1906 – April 12, 1997

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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
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
George Wald quote: "To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it."
To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it. George Wald
Life has a status in the physical universe. It is part of the order of nature. It has a high place in that order, since it probably represents the most complex state of organisation that matter has achieved in our universe. We on this planet have an especially proud place as men; for in us as men matter has begun to contemplate itself... George Wald
George Wald quote: "Our business is with life, not death."
Our business is with life, not death. George Wald
George Wald quote: "I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good..."
I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. 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
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
George Wald quote: "I tell my students to try early in life to find an..."
I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective. George Wald
George Wald quote: "The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life."
The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life. George Wald
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. George Wald
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. George Wald
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
George Wald quote: "As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information..."
As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time. George Wald
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

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