A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
- George Wald Quote

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.
- George Wald Quote

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 Quote

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million.
- George Wald Quote

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
- George Wald Quote

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
- George Wald Quote

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
- George Wald Quote

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
- George Wald Quote

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 Quote

It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.
- George Wald Quote

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
- George Wald Quote

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.
- George Wald Quote

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
- George Wald Quote

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
- George Wald Quote

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.
- George Wald Quote

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
- George Wald Quote

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.
- George Wald Quote

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
- George Wald Quote

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
- George Wald Quote

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
- George Wald Quote

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.
- George Wald Quote

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
- George Wald Quote