All George Wald Quotes
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.
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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.
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I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
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I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
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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.
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The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.
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Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
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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.
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The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.
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Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
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We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
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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.
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The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
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