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

Quote by George Wald

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The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way...

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way...

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake,...

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake,...

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 scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists,...

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists,...

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at...

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at...

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

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

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

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

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

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

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about...

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about...

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as...

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as...

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.

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

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

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.

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...

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror...

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror...

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...