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39 quotes by George Wald

George Wald Born (1906-11-18)November 18, 1906 New York City Died April 12, 1997(1997-04-12) (aged 90) Cambridge, Massachusetts Nationality American Fields Neurobiology Institutions Harvard University Known for Pigments in the retina Notable awards Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (1939) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1967) Spouse Frances Kingsley (1931-?; divorced; 2 children) Ruth Hubbard (m. 1958; 2 children) George...
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The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

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

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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... →

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I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

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

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

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

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

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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly... →

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

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

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A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay... →

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