Citas de George Wald

• There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is no other possibility. Spontaneous generation was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others, but that just leaves us with only one other possibility... that life came as a supernatural act of creation by God, but I can't accept that philosophy because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

  George Wald

  Filosofía, Creer, Años

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• Lanzar esas bombas atómicas sobre Hiroshima y Nagasaki fue un crimen de guerra.

  George Wald

  War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Bombs

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• Sería muy pobre ser un átomo en un universo sin físicos, y los físicos están hechos de átomos. Un físico es la forma que tiene un átomo de saber sobre los átomos.

  George Wald

  Science, Knowing, Way

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• Un físico es una forma de saber sobre los átomos.

  George Wald

  Wisdom, Science, Knowing

  Foreword to L. J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment (1958)

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• Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing.

  George Wald

  Special, Generations, Alternatives

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• He vivido gran parte de mi vida entre moléculas. Son una buena compañía.

  George Wald

  Molecules, Good Company, Company

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• La civilización acabará en 15 o 30 años si no se toman medidas inmediatas contra los problemas a los que se enfrenta la humanidad.

  George Wald

  Tomado, Años, Civilización

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• No quiero creer en Dios. Por lo tanto, elijo creer en lo que sé que es científicamente imposible, la generación espontánea que conduce a la evolución.

  George Wald

  Believe, Generations, Want

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• Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

  George Wald

  Life, Science, Years

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• The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

  George Wald

  Children, Intelligent, Asking

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• Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

  George Wald

  Science, Balance, Nuclear

  "A Generation in Search of a Future". George Wald's speech at an anti-war teach-in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 4, 1969); published in Chicago Journalism Review by Ron Dorfman, May 1969.

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• Cuatro elementos, hidrógeno, carbono, oxígeno y nitrógeno, constituyen también un ejemplo de la asombrosa unión de nuestro universo. Forman las moléculas "orgánicas" que constituyen los organismos vivos de un planeta, y los núcleos de estos mismos elementos interactúan para generar la luz de su estrella. Entonces, los organismos del planeta pasan a depender totalmente de esa luz estelar, como deben hacer para que la vida persista. Así es como toda la vida en la Tierra funciona con luz solar. [Refiriéndose a la fotosíntesis]

  George Wald

  Life, Running, Stars

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• Basta contemplar la magnitud de esta tarea para admitir que la generación espontánea de un organismo vivo es imposible. Sin embargo, aquí estamos, como resultado, creo yo, de la generación espontánea.

  George Wald

  Believe, Tasks, Generations

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• 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.

  George Wald

  Science, Growth, Age

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

  George Wald

  Trying, Unattainable, Students

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• When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved one hundred years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose spontaneously by chance!

  George Wald

  Believe, Philosophical, Origin Of Life

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• Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

  George Wald

  Science, Editing, Choices

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• We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked in a remote past in a dying star. The waters of ancient seas set the pattern of ions in our blood. The ancient atmospheres moulded our metabolism.

  George Wald

  Stars, Past, Ions

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• La única utilidad de una bomba atómica es evitar que otro la utilice. No puede darnos ninguna protección, sólo la dudosa satisfacción de las represalias...

  George Wald

  Giving, Use, Bombs

  "A Generation in Search of a Future". George Wald's speech at an anti-war teach-in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 4, 1969); published in Chicago Journalism Review by Ron Dorfman, May 1969.

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• Our business is with life, not death.

  George Wald

  Empresas

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• La muerte parece haber sido un invento bastante tardío en la evolución. Uno puede recorrer un largo camino en la evolución antes de encontrarse con un auténtico cadáver.

  George Wald

  Death, Science, Long

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• I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of experimentation. When it is going well, it is like a quiet conversation with Nature. One asks a question and gets an answer, then one asks the next question and gets the next answer. An experiment is a device to make Nature speak intelligibly. After that, one only has to listen.

  George Wald

  Nature, Science, Hands

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• Ya sabemos lo suficiente para empezar a hacer frente a todos los grandes problemas que ahora amenazan la vida humana y gran parte del resto de la vida en la Tierra. Nuestra crisis no es una crisis de información; es una crisis de decisión política y de acción.

  George Wald

  Rest Of Life, Decision, Earth

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• 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.

  George Wald

  Mistake, Winning, Competition

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• A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

  George Wald

  Conocimiento, Ciencia, Realidad

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