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 Read Quote
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. George Wald Read Quote
As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time. George Wald Read 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 Read 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 Read Quote
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? George Wald Read Quote
