A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

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About George Wald

Portrait of George Wald

George Wald (November 18, 1906 – April 12, 1997) was an American scientist and activist 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.

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When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength 400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.

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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

—Richard Feynman

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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.

—Sir Arthur Eddington

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

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