George Wald Quotes

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.

George Wald

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• What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Doing
  • Planet
  • Inexcusable

• The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Planet
  • Save
  • Actually

• I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  

  Jack London
  • Planet
  • Magnificent
  • Atom

• The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Home
  • Earth
  • Beauty

• We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Plan
  • Planet
  • Environmental

• I'm not a creature of Washington.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Creature
  • Washington

• The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.

  

  Jean Patou
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Creature

• Our journey in going beyond our home planet is a human endeavor, and in the greatest tradition of exploration, past, present, and future spacefarers will continue to be enduring catalysts for inspiration in our quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Future
  • Journey
  • Inspiration

• It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Hurt
  • Hunting
  • Creature

• I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that Climate Change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Fiction

• In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That is really the heart of consciousness.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • World
  • Heart
  • Organism

• You can just start to feel really pregnant. Like you are the hugest person on the face of the planet.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Person
  • Planet
  • Pregnant

• From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Perspective
  • Reflection

• It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Control

• Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.

  

  Dorothy Stang
  • People
  • World
  • Chance

• This individual will not be on this planet mocking us, lecturing us, and heckling us and making fun of our children that he murdered. Don't worry.

  

  Frank Keating
  • Children
  • Planet
  • Murdered

• I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Afraid
  • Girls
  • Planet

• It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Creature

• We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Trust
  • Ifs
  • Bookstores

• I've reached the age where young people frequently ask for my advice. All I can really say is that electronics is a fascinating field that I continue to find fulfilling. The field is still growing rapidly, and the opportunities that are ahead are at least as great as they were when I graduated from college. My advice is to get involved and get started.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • People
  • Great
  • Age

• Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • War
  • Heroin

• I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Never
  • Swimming
  • Awards

• Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Trying
  • Lost
  • Actresses

• 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.

  

  George Wald
  • Planet
  • Creature
  • Organism