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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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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Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.
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A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.
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I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
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Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
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You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.
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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
