Quotes By George Wald

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

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.

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.

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

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

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

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.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.