#y

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

— George Wald

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All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side. ↗

— George Wald

#always #defense #departments #now #other

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

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 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

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

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#factory #hope #lipstick #make #our

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

— George Wald

#history #ideal #immortality #men #pursued