George Wald Quotes
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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection - only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation...
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Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
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I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
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Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
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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.
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Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
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Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.