George Wald Quotes

United States, Scientist
November 18, 1906 – April, 12, 1997.

George Wald was an American scientist who studied pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.

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.

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

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- Knowing
- Atom
- Physicist

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...

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

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

George Wald
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

George Wald
The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

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- Answers
- Questions
- Asks
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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- Planet
- Creature
- Organism

Our business is with life, not death.

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- Life
- Business
- Death
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

George Wald