George Wald Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“A scientist should be the happiest of men.”

“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.”

“Our business is with life, not death.”

“The concept of war crimes is an American invention.”

“We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.”

“I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive 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.”

“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.”

“We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.”