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A scientist should be the happiest of men. (George Wald)
The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life. View quote
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The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. View quote
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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense. View quote
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So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. View quote
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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. (George Wald)
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. View quote
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To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it. View quote
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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? View quote
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We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information it is a crisis of decision of policy and action. View quote
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George Wald

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Occupation: American Scientist
Born: November 18, 1906
Died: April 12, 1997
Quotes count: 40