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

Quote by George Wald

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The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life...

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life...

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is...

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is...

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

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

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have...

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have...

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material...

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material...

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can...

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can...

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

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

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to...

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to...

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

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

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per...

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per...

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the...

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the...

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.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

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.