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

— George Wald

#lives #nothing #reality #scientist

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

#as far as #attack #conservative #estimates #everything

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

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

#having #ideological #material #nothing #nuclear

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

#bad #chips #eat #four #fours

There is no such thing as collective guilt. ↗

— Kurt Waldheim

#guilt #such #thing

I can't do anything quietly anymore. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#anything #i #quietly

I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#every #every day #fun #fun thing #get

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#had #i #information #last #send

People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#fun #interesting #interesting things #people #things