Quotes by George Wald

About George Wald:

George Wald is best known for his work with pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.
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And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

George Wald

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

George Wald

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

George Wald

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

George Wald

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

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

George Wald

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

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

George Wald

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

George Wald

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

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

George Wald

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

George Wald

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

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 peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.

George Wald

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

George Wald

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

George Wald

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

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

George Wald

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

George Wald

Author Bio

  • NameGeorge Wald
  • DescriptionAmerican neuroscientist and activist
  • BornNovember 18, 1906
  • DiedApril 12, 1997
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScientist; Neuroscientist; Physician
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Albert Lasker Award For Basic Medical Research; Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine; Frederic Ives Medal