Author: George Wald

Quotes

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

- George Wald

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

- George Wald

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

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

- George Wald

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.

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

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

- George Wald

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

- George Wald

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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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