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

Quote by George Wald

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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...

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...

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

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

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars...

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars...

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...

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of...

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of...

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.

Our business is with life, not death.

Our business is with life, not death.

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

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

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

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

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,...

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who...

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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.

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

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...