Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.
LINUS PAULINGMen will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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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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Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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I try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
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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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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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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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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.
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Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
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Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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