George Wald

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. ”

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life. ”

Our business is with life, not death. ”

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense. ”

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. ”

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? ”

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. ”

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. ”

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. ”

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited. ”