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Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

Linus Pauling

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.
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Beautiful Face Life Process Production Structure
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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Fact Fly Science Yourself
The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used – we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.
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Acceptance Destroy Ideas Immoral Power Weapon World
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: ‘Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.’ The twenty-five percent is for error.
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Errors Expectation Gold Mistake Rule Yourself
Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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Biology Body Complication Human Live Oneself Structure
You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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Goodness Ideas Quantity Yourself
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
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Effort Moral Rejection Science Search Understand World
Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Life One Liner Relationship Science
In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.
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Best Goodness Ideas Teaching Way Yourself
No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
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Evidence Food Goodness Health Medicine
Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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Body Correction Nutrition Sick
Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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Chemistry Politics Relationship World
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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Curiosity Greatness Happiness Life Reality Satisfaction
There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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Harm Radiance Safety
But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe – and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
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Curiosity Description Discover Enthusiasm Imagination Interest
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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Believe Complication Explanation Principle Science Simplicity

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

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Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

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