85 Quotes by George Wald

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?