George Wald

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. ↗

— George Wald

#every #learned #lives #must #others

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. ↗

— George Wald

#atomic bombs #bombs #crime #dropping #hiroshima

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

— George Wald

#find #i #life #objective #students

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. ↗

— George Wald

#i #know #most #peacetime #thing

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. ↗

— George Wald

#atom #atoms #knowing #physicist #way

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

— George Wald

#lives #nothing #reality #scientist

A scientist should be the happiest of men. ↗

— George Wald

#men #scientist #should

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side. ↗

— George Wald

#always #defense #departments #now #other

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

— George Wald

#living #see #wars #which #world

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize. ↗

— George Wald

#lecture #many #more #much #probably