85 Quotes by George Wald

We have to get rid of those atomic weapons, here and everywhere. We cannot live with them.

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.

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

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.

Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space.

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.

Our business is with life, not death.

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