George Wald Quotes

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time. - 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

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

A scientist should be the happiest of men. - George Wald

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. - George Wald

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

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

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

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize. - George Wald

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