George Wald Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
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The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.
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There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
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I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
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Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
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I quickly said that, because of my loyalty to 'Star Trek' and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
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I think it's just having the support of our parents. Knowing that they're going to keep you on the right path and guide you.
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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.
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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
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Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.
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An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.
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But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
