George Wald Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  War, Defense, Sides

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• Ante una nueva mutación en un organismo o un cambio fundamental en sus condiciones de vida, el biólogo no suele estar en condiciones de predecir sus perspectivas futuras. Tiene que esperar y ver. Por ejemplo, el mamut peludo parece haber sido un animal admirable, inteligente y bien dotado. Ahora que se ha extinguido, intentamos comprender por qué fracasó. Dudo que ningún biólogo piense que podría haber predicho ese fracaso. La aptitud y la supervivencia son por naturaleza estimaciones del rendimiento pasado.

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  Future, Science, Thinking

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• Ya sabemos lo suficiente para empezar a hacer frente a todos los grandes problemas que ahora amenazan la vida humana y gran parte del resto de la vida en la Tierra. Nuestra crisis no es una crisis de información; es una crisis de decisión política y de acción.

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  Rest Of Life, Decision, Earth

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• 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.

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  Mean, Breakfast Food, Giving

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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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  Life, Responsibility, Science

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• Hay vida en todo este universo, pero la única vida en el sistema solar está en la tierra, y en todo el universo somos los únicos hombres.

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  Men, Earth, Solar System

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• No todos los seres vivos mueren. Una ameba, por ejemplo, no tiene por qué morir nunca; ni siquiera tiene por qué, como ciertos generales, desvanecerse. Simplemente se divide y se convierte en dos nuevas amebas.

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  Vida, muerte, ciencia

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• Lo importante es que, puesto que el origen de la vida pertenece a la categoría de fenómenos que ocurren al menos una vez, el tiempo está de su parte. Por improbable que nos parezca este acontecimiento, o cualquiera de los pasos que implica, si se dispone de tiempo suficiente es casi seguro que ocurrirá al menos una vez. Y para la vida tal como la conocemos, con su capacidad de crecimiento y reproducción, una vez puede ser suficiente.

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  Origin Of Life, Growth, Important

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

  George Wald

  Editing, Atheism, Authorship

  1975 'The Origin of Optical Activity', in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol.69.

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• When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.

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  Pain, Joy, Hard

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• I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. 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? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!

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  Hard Work, Knowledge, Science

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• We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

  George Wald

  Life, War, Science

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• Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is our home; and, most of all, what becomes of men-all men, of all nations, colors, and creeds. This has become one world, a world for all men. It is only such a world that can now offer us life, and the chance to go on.

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  Home, Science, Men

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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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  Love Life, Mirrors, Lovely

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• Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

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  Men, Immortality, Pursued

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• I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system.

  George Wald

  Vida, Estrellas, Ciencia

  "American politics and its interpreters". Book by Louis C. Reichman and Barry J. Wishart (p. 80), 1971.

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• If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air, it makes itself a bird. If it wants to go to Harvard, it makes itself a man. The strangest thing of all is that the germ plasm that we carry around within us has done all those things. There was a time, hundreds of millions of years ago, when it was making fish. Then ... amphibia ... reptiles ... mammals, and now it's making men.

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  Ocean, Science, Men

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• There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students were even better. In the old days, if you offered a graduate student a thiamine-deficient diet, he gladly went on it, for that was the only way he could eat. Science is getting to be more and more difficult.

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  Regret, Science, Animal

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• El Premio Nobel es un honor único en el mundo por haber calado en los corazones y las mentes de la gente sencilla de todo el mundo. Proyecta una luz de paz y razón sobre todos nosotros, y por ello le estoy especialmente agradecido.

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  Peace, Grateful, Heart

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• No concibo una pesadilla tan aterradora como establecer comunicación con una tecnología supuestamente superior (o, si se quiere, avanzada) en el espacio exterior.

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  Communication, Technology, Space

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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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  Knowledge, Gay, Science

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• La llamada defensa absorbe ahora el sesenta por ciento del presupuesto nacional, y alrededor del doce por ciento del Producto Nacional Bruto.

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  Twelve, Defense, Gross

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

  George Wald

  People, Want, Trouble

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• I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.

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  Futuro, Significado, Ciencia

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• As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

  George Wald

  Information, Faces, Lectures

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