A biography for George Waldhasn’t been written yet.
“A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.”
“You see, 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.”
“I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.”
“The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.”
“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.”
“The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.”
“Our business is with life, not death.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.”
“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.”
“I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.”
“A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.”
“A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.”
“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.”
“A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.”
“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.”