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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.
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George Wald
Age: 90 †
Born: 1906
Born: November 18
Died: 1997
Died: April 12
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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.
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We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
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Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
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The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.
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I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
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We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.
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I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
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I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.
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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.
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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.
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We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
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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.
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So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
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When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.
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Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
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A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.
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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.
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The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.
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The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection - only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation...
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About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by his sufferance. He is the custodian of life on earth, and in the solar system. It's a big responsibility.
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