Quotes by George Wald

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize. (George Wald)

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. (George Wald)

A physicist is an atoms way of knowing about atoms. (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 scientist should be the happiest of men. (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)

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me. (George Wald)

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. (George Wald)

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)

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 atoms way of knowing about atoms. (George Wald)