“As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Ame...” — George Wald Quote

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.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

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

There always needs to be some excitement and some peace and quiet - otherwise you'll have a heart attack.

I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.

I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this 'thing' their God.

I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.