85 Quotes by George Wald

Mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed always as the matrix, the source and condition of physical reality.

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

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

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

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.

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

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

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.