top of page
Quote_1.png
George Wald

"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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

Exlpore more Scientists quotes

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Scientists are always skeptics."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"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."

Explore more quotes by George Wald

Quote_1.png
George Wald
"The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them."
Quote_1.png
George Wald
"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."
Quote_1.png
George Wald
"To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it."
Quote_1.png
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 seen to be more limited."
Quote_1.png
George Wald
"Our business is with life, not death."
Quote_1.png
George Wald
"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."
Quote_1.png
George Wald
"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."
Quote_1.png
George Wald
"I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me."
Quote_1.png
George Wald
"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."
Quote_1.png
George Wald
"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?"
bottom of page