George Wald

(12 votes)   Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

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

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(7 votes)   So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

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

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(10 votes)   A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

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

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(9 votes)   I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

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(8 votes)   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.

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(7 votes)   A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

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(7 votes)   A scientist should be the happiest of men.

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(7 votes)   And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

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

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(7 votes)   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?

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(7 votes)   There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

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(7 votes)   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.

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