"It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does."
George Wald was an American biologist and physiologist known for research on visual pigments in the retina. He shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye. He taught for decades at Harvard University.