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George Wald
George Wald
American Scientist
Born: Nov 18, 1906
Died: Apr 12, 1997
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All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side. George Wald
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Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. George Wald
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Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. George Wald
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There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. George Wald
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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. George Wald
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The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that. George Wald
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The concept of war crimes is an American invention. George Wald
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A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives. George Wald
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You see, 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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We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. George Wald
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We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons. George Wald
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We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life. George Wald
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There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men. George Wald
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The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life. George Wald
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Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited. George Wald
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Our business is with life, not death. George Wald
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It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does. George Wald
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In fact, 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
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As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time. George Wald
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As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. George Wald
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And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense. George Wald
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A scientist should be the happiest of men. George Wald
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A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. George Wald
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It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. George Wald
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