George Wald Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.”

“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.”

“The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.”

“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.”

“A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.”

“I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.”

“A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.”