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 e…

- George Wald

Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternat…

- George Wald

Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

- George Wald

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

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 a…

- George Wald

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

- George Wald

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are se…

- George Wald

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

- George Wald

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

- George Wald