Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
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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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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I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy.
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If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
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Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
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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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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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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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Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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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 think that the formation of [DNA’s] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.
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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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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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