George wald

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

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.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

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.

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.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

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

A scientist should be the happiest of men.