George Wald Quotes

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

Realize, Dialogue, Lecture

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

Small, Learned, Others

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
George Wald

War, Crime, Atomic

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
George Wald

Life, Find, Try

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
George Wald

Win, Thought, Mistake

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

Draft, Peacetime

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

Knowing, Atom, Atoms

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

Nothing, Reality, Lives

A scientist should be the happiest of men.
George Wald

Men, Happiest, Scientist

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

Time, War, Side

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

Living, Defense, Wars

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

Everything, Working, Far

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

Time, Keep, Coming

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
George Wald

Future, Old, Speak

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

Life, Good, Company

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

Try, Tell, Themselves

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
George Wald

Against, Nuclear, Attack

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

Death, Long, Before

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

Made, Poor, Universe

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

Good, Future, Care

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
George Wald

Nothing, Balance, Nuclear

Our business is with life, not death.
George Wald

Life, Business, Death

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

Age, Science, Big

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
George Wald

Men, History, Since

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
George Wald

National, Budget, Defense

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 18, 1906

Died: April 12, 1997

Links

Find on Amazon: George Wald

Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Related Authors

Carl Sagan
Margaret Mead
George Washington Carver
Isaac Asimov
E. O. Wilson
Thomas J. Watson
Alan Kay
Maxwell Maltz
More

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us