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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. ↗

— Derek Walcott

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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 that way all their lives. ↗

— George Wald

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

— George Wald

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

— George Wald

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As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. ↗

— George Wald

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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

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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 self-defeating. ↗

— George Wald

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I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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There is no such thing as collective guilt. ↗

— Kurt Waldheim

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