George Wald

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

— George Wald

#coming #faces #information #keep #keeps

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

— George Wald

#am #behind #future #growing #growing old

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

— George Wald

#company #good #good company #i #life

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? ↗

— George Wald

#i #i do #involving #know #molecule

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

— George Wald

#against #attack #defense #i #i think

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse. ↗

— George Wald

#been #before #corpse #death #encountering

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. ↗

— George Wald

#atom #atoms #knowing #made #physicist

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

— George Wald

#nothing #nuclear #nuclear weapons #offer #still

Our business is with life, not death. ↗

— George Wald

#death #life #our

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited. ↗

— George Wald

#answers #big #big questions #broader #ever