There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
LINUS PAULINGThere is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
LINUS PAULINGThe 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.
LINUS PAULINGScience is the search for truth.
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.
LINUS PAULINGI 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.
LINUS PAULINGSatisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
LINUS PAULINGLife is a relationship between molecules.
LINUS PAULINGBut 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.
LINUS PAULINGJust one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
LINUS PAULINGScience 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.
LINUS PAULINGLife is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
LINUS PAULINGThe best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
LINUS PAULINGI 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.
LINUS PAULINGEvery aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
LINUS PAULINGOptimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
LINUS PAULINGHumanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.
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