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
atomic cannot rid
We have to get rid of those atomic weapons, here and everywhere. We cannot live with them.
special generations alternatives
Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing.
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.
peace grateful heart
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.
pain joy hard
When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.
thank-you heaven secret
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
communication technology space
I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space.
love-life mirrors lovely
We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.
Our business is with life, not death.
men scientist should
A scientist should be the happiest of men.
knows
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
trying unattainable students
I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.