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George Wald Quotes

American - Scientist | November 18, 1906 - April 12, 1997

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

Atomic Bomb Keep Only Somebody Bomb

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

War Crime Hiroshima Those Dropping

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

Balance Nothing Nuclear Weapons Us

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

Editing Products Rather Than

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.

War Tradition Worth Nothing Defend

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

Life Men Universe Earth Solar Over

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.

Saying Die You Heaven Ready Beyond

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

You More Realize Dialogue Than Much

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

Life Good Good Company My Life Lived

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

People Trouble Want Things Get Most

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

Way Knowing Atoms Atom About

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.

Life Today You Back Earth Alive

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