George Wald Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
George Wald quotes and sayings page 2 (scientist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 39 we have.
“There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.”
“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.”
“As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.”
“A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.”
“Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.”
“To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.”
“The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.”
“And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.”
“So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.”
“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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