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Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
George Wald
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George Wald
Age: 90 †
Born: 1906
Born: November 18
Died: 1997
Died: April 12
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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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The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.
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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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We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
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We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
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We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.
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Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
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The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.
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A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
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We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.
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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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Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.
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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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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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Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
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We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked in a remote past in a dying star. The waters of ancient seas set the pattern of ions in our blood. The ancient atmospheres moulded our metabolism.
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One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.
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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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I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
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I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space.
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