George Wald Quotes
An American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina.
(1906 - 1997)
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A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.
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A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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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.
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A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.
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A scientist should be the happiest of men.
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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.
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And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
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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.
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As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.
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Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
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I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
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I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
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I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
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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?
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I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
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