George Wald Quotes


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.


Citations

Wald, George. "A Generation in Search of a Future." The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 1969, p. 31.

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George Wald
George Wald
  • Born: November 18, 1906
  • Died: April 12, 1997
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist

George Wald was an American scientist who studied pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.