Quotes by George Wald

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

#George Wald

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

#George Wald

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

#George Wald

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

#George Wald

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

#George Wald

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

#George Wald

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

#George Wald

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

#George Wald

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

#George Wald

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

#George Wald

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

#George Wald

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

#George Wald