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

~George Wald

Topics: Balance Nothing Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Offer Still Terror Us Weapons

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The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

~George Wald

Topics: Atomic Atomic Bomb Bomb Else Keep Only Somebody Use Using

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It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

~George Wald

Topics: About Atom Atoms Knowing Made Physicist Physicists Poor Thing Universe Way Without Would

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I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

~George Wald

Topics: Among Company Good Good Company Life Lived Molecules Much My Life

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

~George Wald

Topics: Dialogue Lecture Many More Much Realize Than You

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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.

~George Wald

Topics: Defend Having Ideological Material Nothing Nuclear Nuclear War Obtained Self-Defeating Tradition Utterly War Worth

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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?

~George Wald

Topics: Ask Involving Know Molecules Question Some Students Tell Themselves Try Well Were Would

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

~George Wald

Topics: Atomic Bombs Crime Dropping Hiroshima Nagasaki Those War

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We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

~George Wald

Topics: Authorship Editing Products Rather Than

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You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

~George Wald

Topics: About Alive Appear Back Billion Creature Earth Every First Life Line Organism Planet Primitive Represents See Three Today Unbroken Years You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 18th, 1906

Died: April 12th, 1997

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