Author: George Wald

Quotes

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

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

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

- George Wald

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

- 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

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

- George Wald

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

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

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

- 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

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