I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, … - George Wald

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The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.

George Wald

I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age.

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We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.

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[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation. ] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once. . . . The time. . . is of the order of two billion years. . . . Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.

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

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