George Wald

Is it to have a chance to live? We don’t ask prosperity. We don’t ask security. But a decent chance to live, and to work out our destinies in peace and decency. That’s the problem. Without more assurance than we now possess that this generation has a future, nothing else matters. It’s not good enough to have given it tender loving care, to have supplied it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don’t mean anything unless that generation has a future. And we’re not sure that it does.