George Wald
George Wald
George David Waldwas an American scientist who 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth18 November 1906
CountryUnited States of America
authentic death invention rather seems
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.
estimates far hoped major number run
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.
using
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
material nuclear obtained tradition utterly war worth
There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
mistake winning competition
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.
editing design choices
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
ocean men air
If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air, it makes itself a bird. If it wants to go to Harvard, it makes itself a man. The strangest thing of all is that the germ plasm that we carry around within us has done all those things. There was a time, hundreds of millions of years ago, when it was making fish. Then ... amphibia ... reptiles ... mammals, and now it's making men.
twelve defense gross
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
future mean science
I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.
atomic cannot rid
We have to get rid of those atomic weapons, here and everywhere. We cannot live with them.