George Wald Quotes

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation of God. God shows himself by allowing man to establish truth.

Science is the poetry of reality.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.